It’s often spotted ranging with other dark corvid birds from crows ... helmet-like spot that breaks the contrast between the yellow body and the comically proportioned scarlet beak.

A colourful mix of blue, yellow, white and green ... greyish-white faces, thinner beaks and peaked heads make it easier to tell them from crows and other black birds. Rooks are very sociable ...

Imagine standing in a quiet forest and hearing a low, rolling croak echo through the trees. Suddenly, a glossy-black bird ...

but I like what George Edwards, an English naturalist, came up with he described it in 1743, ‘spur-winged water hen.’ Northern jacanas are pretty little birds. They have a chestnut-maroon body and ...