THE mother of the octuplets born recently in the US has her hands full.

GEESE were in the news recently for all the wrong reasons; the airliner that came down in the Hudson River flew into a flock of them.

THE songbirds of Europe are well studied, but some aspects of their lives are shrouded in mystery. Most small birds migrate at night, when we can’t see them; their flocks appear on radar screens.

WHEN a baby elephant, rhino or giraffe is born in Dublin Zoo there’s a huge response from the media.

THERE are two Charles Darwin anniversaries this year. February 15 will be his 200th birthday and, on November 24, we will celebrate the publication, 150 years ago, of his famous book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

Richard Collins says slender-billed curlew may be Europe’s ‘Dodo’

RATS, it appears, have returned to Hamelin, 700 years after the Pied Piper banished them.

Richard Collins reports on the third Sack of Rome by noble winged knights.

TWITCHERS search out rare birds, keeping a list of every one seen.

Richard Collins on the possibility that the great spotted has bred in Ireland