THE Guardian newspaper in Britain recently reported on a row that has broken out over the future of a thrush-sized bird introduced from South America.

WERNER Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams celebrates a series of wildlife paintings.

SOME birds are more often heard than seen.

AS Donal Hickey reported on this page last week, a sea-eagle has been killed by a turbine blade in Kerry.

MIDWAY ATOLL is a ring-shaped barrier reef with two small islands between Hawaii and Japan.

TREKKING in the jungles of Borneo has its privations.

“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know.

READERS will be familiar with ‘white -coat hypertension’, a rise in blood pressure triggered by the sight and smell of the doctor’s surgery.