Kannur: A rare species of migratory bird, Pied Wheatear, was recently spotted at Madayipara in Kannur by ophthalmologist and ornithologist Dr. Jayan Thomas. This is the first time there was a record ...

Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction." Sooty Shearwaters ...

Panaji: In a rare sighting that thrilled local birders, a juvenile pied wheatear (oenanthe pleschanka) was spotted earlier this month at the Verna industrial estate. The small migratory songbird, less ...

The medical superintendent at Jadavpur University, an avid bird watcher, on Wednesday photographed a pied wheatear, a migratory bird from east Europe, while birding in Baruipur. There has been no ...

Seafront visitors were intrigued to see dozens of cameras - most with huge lenses - focused on Redcar beach. And the reason? A Twitter alert, appropriately enough, that a very rare bird had dropped by ...

: Pied Wheatear, a rare migratory bird, was recently spotted at Madayipara by a bird watcher here. Bird enthusiast Jayan Thomas, who is an eye specialist here, said he had spotted the Pied Wheatear at ...

Even a single gene, reshuffled or regulated in new ways, can fuel repeated bursts of evolutionary innovation, according to a recent study of wheatear birds. A study was recently published in the ...