One Scottish council says it has plan to try and prevent the birds being a health and safety risk.

Gulls are a little scary. They frighten me. I don’t mean literally, in a Hitchcockian sense. The nightmare comes in trying to ...

(Jan. 16, 2025) Purple Sandpipers are one of the joys of winter birding. There’s no need to wait for summer to see these specialists of the shore. Ten were counted at Jetties Beach Jan. 9, when the ...

Every summer for the past 12 years, Friends of Haystack Rock volunteer Tim Halloran has risen early to go to the beach and watch tufted puffins swoop, dive and nest above the vast blue backdrop of ...

Imagine holding the hand of a near-stranger as they face death. Then you do it again with someone else months later, and again and again, year after year. Or you spend thousands of hours of your ...

Step into the realm of avian royalty along the Atlantic waterfront, and you’ll be met by the majestic Great Black-backed Gull, proudly wearing the crown of the largest gull globally. With a robust ...

“With evolutionary advances, it is possible, if not probable, that they might develop ways to breathe outside of water and eventually hunt terrestrial animals like deer, sheep, and other mammals – ...

Ivory Coast is the sixth in a growing list of African nations cutting military ties with former colonial power France. France's President Emmanuel Macron greets Ivory Coast's President Alassane ...

The troops are expected to leave Ivory Coast this month as France, a former colonial power in West Africa, fast loses influence there. By Ruth Maclean Reporting from Dakar, Senegal Ivory Coast has ...

Ivory Coast has announced that French troops will leave the country this month after a decades-long military presence, becoming the latest African nation to downscale military ties with its former ...

In the latest blow to Western military alliances in Africa, the government of Ivory Coast has announced that France will begin withdrawing its troops from the West African country this month.