In a twist on seduction in the vegetable world, one South African plant grows a flowerless spear that lets avian pollinators perch within beak shot of the plant’s flowers. Naturalists proposed decades ...

A cockatiel that could not be shifted from a Hastings tree for about a week was blasted down by firefighters using a hose yesterday. The cockatiel had been refusing to budge from its perch in a tree ...

Bob Twichell, of Fayetteville, sent me this interesting photo of what he called a "blue perch," alongside a regular yellow perch. "My neighbor caught this blue perch last week while fishing up near ...

New research sheds light on the world's most specialised bird perch. The researchers suspect that the vertical, branchless stem of a South African plant - locally called the Rat's Tail - has evolved ...