These dramatic photos show a robin and cuckoo in the throes of a vicious fight. Taken in Kirkcudbright, Scotland, the images show the pair grappling with each other as the Robin 'instinctively knows ...

With their orange-red breast and small, stout shape, the robin is one of the most familiar British garden birds . But if you’ve tried tempting them with a bird feeder full of seeds, you’ve probably ...

As a self-professed nature nerd, I’ve become accustomed to common names for plants being misleading. Rose of Sharon, for instance, is not a rose but a hibiscus. It follows that names for animals may ...