Although extraordinary performances were seen in Rio, human athletic feats are in the halfpenny place compared to those of wild creatures; an Arctic tern has just completed the longest annual journey known to have been made by any living thing, writes Richard Collins

You may think being a seabird looks like a laugh. Sitting on the cliffs, cackling away, occasionally flying off to pluck a fish from the sea and appearing on Springwatch.

WILDLIFE in Britain has benefited following the first traditional year of weather for a generation, scientists have revealed.

Richard Collins wonders if puffins are becoming extinct or just migrating north.