With a sinister yellow gaze and legs ‘swoln like those of a gouty man’, the prehistoric-looking stone curlew is nonetheless an endearing little fellow, finds Jack Watkins. There are birds that lift ...

An Australian resident has been praised for her quick thinking after making a very hard-to-spot discovery outside her home.

A conservation project in the East of England that has helped increase the population of one of the country's most threatened birds is marking its 40th anniversary. In 1985 the number of breeding ...

An endangered bird has travelled hundreds of kilometres looking for love only to wind up spending its nights alone, staring at its own reflection. After a lengthy trip Jo the bush stone-curlew has ...

THE long legged bush stone-curlew is a bird that is active at night and its plaintive wailing calls can be quite unnerving. It is mostly grey-brown above, streaked with black and rufous. It is whitish ...

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One of Britain's rarest birds has been found wandering outside a supermarket. Shoppers got more than they bargained for when the disorientated young stone curlew was found outside an Aldi in Devizes, ...

The stone curlew is a crow-sized bird with a large head, yellow legs and relatively long wings and tail, that are more active at night. Once found widely throughout England, stone curlew numbers ...

Eggs laid by a pair of endangered curlews in northern New South Wales have been broken, upsetting locals and setting back repopulation efforts. The shells of the bush stone-curlew egg were found in a ...