LADY, Britain’s oldest osprey, has returned to the Loch of Lowes in Scotland after spending the winter in West Africa.

RECENT events in Cork have put the spotlight on elephants.

SUCH may have been the sentiments of Conor Ryan of the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group when he spotted a black-browed albatross from the deck of the Celtic Explorer on the Feb 29.

AN article by Jessica Hamzelou in the February edition of New Scientist has some good news for men.

BIRD-WATCHING in Morocco last week I encountered some magpies.

DURING the winter of 2004, waxwings visited Dublin’s St. Stephen’s Green.

A PAPER in the current edition of Irish Birds, The Birds of the Phoenix Park, County Dublin, gives the results of a survey carried out during the summer of 2007 and the following winter. The author is Olivia Crowe.

VISIT the African Plains exhibit at Dublin Zoo and you will see scimitar horned oryx, a creature classified as ‘extinct’ by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

WHOOPER swans Romeo and Julietta are in the news.

FIN whales are visiting the Celtic Sea between Wexford and Youghal.