Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: After that story from Paul Johnson you may remember, he came from The Entrance NSW, ...

Half a field away a lapwing is incubating her eggs. Only by chance do we know she is there. Disturbed for some reason, she had, in typical lapwing fashion, taken to the sky uttering shrill cries to ...

Ground-nesting birds called lapwings use the shape of their nests and surroundings to hide from predators, new research shows. Many ground-nesting species are in decline due to changes in land ...

I would love to say that prejudice is confined to the past, but as we see on a daily basis it is still rampant today. If there is one seemingly unbreakable connection to our ancestors is our ability ...

The Talimarzhan reservoir in Uzbekistan is a vital area for over 26% of the global population of the Critically Endangered Sociable Lapwing (Vanellus gregarius) during its autumn migration, our Uzbek ...

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Britain's most ambitious wild bird recovery programme is being launched to ...

A wildlife camera captured a northern lapwing walking steadily across shallow water and exposed mud in bright daylight. The bird’s long swept-back crest, black-and-white face, reddish legs, and ...

A five-year project has been launched to halt the decline of the lapwing, a bird traditionally known as the "farmer's friend". More than 250 farm sites have been chosen to test measures designed to ...