Many birds have fleshy ornaments on and around their faces that make Lady Gaga’s wardrobe seem demure. Extra flesh and wattles seem to be more common among primitive lineages of birds, including ...

THE wattle crane is a highly endangered species, with only a few hundred breeding pairs left. Most of the surviving population is found in the KZN Midlands to highland marshes, vleis and moist ...

Welcoming a family of wattlebirds into his Melbourne garden helped deter Andrew Herrick’s less amiable avian visitors – it’s a service he’s happy to pay for in apricots There is an insect circus in ...

A turkey’s fan of feathers can make it look like quite a regal beast—a stark contrast to the pimply mess of flesh on and around its head. Though repulsive to humans, the facial baggage on male turkeys ...

As West Australian officials tried yesterday to hose down public health concerns - despite not knowing the cause of the deaths - the sick and convulsing wattle bird was put down by an Esperance ...

THE African wattle lapwing was formerly known as the wattle plover, and in Afrikaans, the leikiewet. The call is a high-pitched ‘kip, kip, kip’. The bird’s distribution is from KZN north eastwards to ...