Lumbini, March 30 -- three years after its first recorded appearance in Nepal, northern wheatear, a rare migratory bird species, has been sighted again. The discovery comes exactly 24 days after the ...

This one is an early-arriver after spending winter in sub-Saharan Africa, and it’s keen to show off its ‘white arse’ ...

This bird had personality, too. It seemed to revel in its starring role, posing erect on a wire fence, basking in the evening sun, hawking a gnat from the air, and lording it over the half-dozen or so ...

Even a single gene, reshuffled or regulated in new ways, can fuel repeated bursts of evolutionary innovation, according to a recent study of wheatear birds. A study was recently published in the ...

Over the coming weeks, the bird population of our hedges, woods and fields will thin out as summer visitors depart for warmer shores. The wheatear will be among the last to go, clinging on until ...

A rare Arctic visitor came to Lane River Bridge in South Sutton on May 3.A female northern wheatear was seen and photographed there and leads to Rare Bird Alert for New Hampshire for this week.These ...

Adult male pied wheatear, Oenanthe pleschanka (protonym, Motacilla pleschanka), also known as the common pied wheatear, Pleschanka's wheatear, or as Pleschanka's (pied) chat, photographed at Debre ...

The Wheatear, in Maltese Kuda, is another common spring visitor that is rather common from March to May and from August to November. It is occasionally recorded in winter and in June. There are ...

It is time to look out for the first returning spring migrants and among the very earliest of these is the wheatear. One or two were seen in southern England last week,while three werein fieldsaround ...

A surprise Northern Wheatear: Ever heard of a wheatear? If you haven’t, here’s a hint - it’s a bird. Does that help? Earlier in the month I wrote a column about spotting an American White Pelican ...

Kannur: A rare species of migratory bird, Pied Wheatear, was recently spotted at Madayipara in Kannur by ophthalmologist and ornithologist Dr. Jayan Thomas. This is the first time there was a record ...

Panaji: In a rare sighting that thrilled local birders, a juvenile pied wheatear (oenanthe pleschanka) was spotted earlier this month at the Verna industrial estate. The small migratory songbird, less ...