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Next to insects, birds sadly seem to get short shrift from humans. We remain powerfully drawn to scenes of lions hunting in the Kalahari desert or rhinos jousting in eastern India, but remain mostly ...

I’m not a bird watcher, but I’ve become a bird listener ever since downloading a bionic ear app to my phone. It lets me enter a different world, one where I’m surrounded not just by chirping but by ...

Enter Merlin! It’s not the magician from the Legend of King Arthur, but it has a similar aura of magical power. Merlin Bird ID is a tool, honed by artificial intelligence, to diagnose the species of ...

ONE RECENT morning I walked from the house to the barn, perhaps 100 yards, and heard several birds. None of them were visible. I turned around (much to the horse’s dismay) and went back to the house ...

Learning to identify birds by sight is simple – page through the field guide until you see a bird that matches or go birdwatching with someone who knows more than you. One shortcut to the process is ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The world can be divided into two types of people — those who have already downloaded the free Merlin Bird ID ...

I have never thought of myself as a "bird watcher" or someone who takes an overly high interest in birds. I know most common bird species around the area by simply being an in-tune outdoorsman my ...

Springtime and the world in early May is alive with birdsong before sunrise: to some, a discordant cacophony, to others, a heavenly, harmonious chorus. Gone are the days when you just grabbed your ...