A HUGE bird project is about to get under way and it’s one in which readers of the Outdoors page can participate.

A HUGE bird project is about to get under way and it’s one in which readers of the Outdoors page can participate.

MAD MALLARD mums frequently make the news. Ducks and their young turn up in the most unlikely places, causing all manner of mayhem, including traffic chaos.

HARDERWIJK is on the edge of the Veluwemeer, the long neck of the Zuiderzee, at the dead centre of the Netherlands.

Richard Collins on the quintessential Renaissance man

THE area of North County Dublin where I live used to be farmed.

IS NATURE nasty? The behaviour of baby eagles in the nest might lead you to think so. A golden eagle chick has hatched at Glenveagh National Park in County Donegal, the first Irish-born eagle in almost a hundred years.

MANY people think that zoos exist just to show off exotic animals and, indeed, educating the public is an important part of a modern zoo’s work.

A REALITY show with a difference is running on the internet.

TO THE European explorers Australia seemed an ideal location for prisons.