A homemaker from Lake Gardens spotted in mid-May a Grasshopper Warbler, a tiny migrant that has never been recorded before in south Bengal even in winter. Mitali Das, a 45-year-old former theatre ...

For a moment, I wasn’t aware that I was listening to a bird at all. That insistent buzzing, coming from somewhere deep inside the scrubby, overgrown reedbed, sounded more like some kind of insect.

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The male’s plumage is colourful, the greyish body contrasting with a chocolate-brown head and gleaming white breast and neck ...

Richard Collins is a polymath from Limerick with a special interest in birds, particularly swans. The session I attended was exhilarating; about 20 species sang or called. On a cool still morning the ...

Although grasslands are rapidly diminishing in New Town because of construction of offices, commercial and residential housing complexes and societies, the township continues to throw the occasional ...

Warm sunny weather has encouraged the return of more summer migrants with blackcaps and willow warblers joining the already singing chiffchaffs, a big passage of ring ouzels, more yellow and white ...

Though a winter sojourner in Chennai, the Pallas’ Grasshopper Warbler’s vacation photos would scarcely fill an album. As Old-World warblers go, this brownish bird has more pronounced markings than ...

Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Kate Humble presents the grasshopper warbler. The reeling song of the grasshopper warbler ...