It was amazing how much skin the bird stuffed in its beak before flying off to the nest, where it incorporated the shed skin in with twigs and dead grass. Why would a bird do such a thing?

This has been difficult to prove in other bird populations, where it is hard to determine which partner flew the nest first and so how each benefits. Oystercatchers tend to ditch their ...

When flying, the birds show a large area of white on the inner wing. They first nested in Scotland in 1970, and since then birds have been attracted to nest in specially designed boxes put up on ...