Astonishingly, the record price for a racing pigeon is €1.6 million, a seemingly inconceivable price for one bird, but buyers ...

A blackcap is about the size of a robin. They can be very aggressive at a bird table. Males have a neat jet-black cap and a cold brown-grey body with a pale throat, vent, and undertail coverts.

For a few weeks every year coming into the colder weather, the skies over Ireland are extraordinarily busy, writes Jack Morley.

An adult blue tit has a pale blue cap surrounded by a white halo; they have white ear coverts, a dark eye stripe, a green-blue back and their wings are blue with a faint white wing bar. A blue tit's ...