A whiskered tern that has put on breeding plumage, at Muttukadu backwaters. Chennai marks a non-breeding site for whiskered terns. When they start developing breeding plumage, they are essentially ...

This striking cattle egret, all decked out in its breeding plumage, was checking out a nesting site at the rookery in the Village of DeLuna. Thanks to Julie Walfield for sharing! Close ...

Karen Swaffield, RSPB warden, said: "We watched the cattle egrets acquiring their beautiful breeding plumage and noticed the eye of one turning red, which they do just before they breed.

"We watched the cattle egrets acquiring their beautiful breeding plumage and noticed the eye of one turning red, which they do just before they breed. "It's wonderful that we had two pairs of ...

San Diego is on the way to becoming the first city in the nation to ban grocery stores from offering digital-only coupons, citing a lack of access to the internet and smartphones by some shoppers.

These days, it’s home to large breeding colonies of herring gulls and great black-backed gulls as well as smaller numbers of American oystercatchers, black-crowned night herons and double ...