Birds

Forty fabulous reasons to pack your bags for the ultimate itinerary of desirable destinations

Dog houses, bird baths and cat beds – surprise your animal friends with these practical pet projects.

The scientist is working to keep our fur babies safe and calm this Guy Fawkes

My friend Anne was recently babysitting my three-yearold granddaughter. Anne suggested they play a game where they try to name as many different types of birds as they can. She started by saying, “Sparrows.” Then Miss Three said, “Seagull.” Anne replied with, “Blackbird,” then Miss Three, after a long pause for thought, said, “More seagulls.” […]

Master, two, loves to play hide and seek. I went looking for him outside and got quite a fright when there was no sign of him. But when I called out to him, I heard a quiet, “mummy”. I looked over to see my little son sitting inside the birdcage with the lorikeet, eating the […]

(Random House, $34.99)What an extraordinary little tome this is. In the late 1880s, a New Zealand gentleman commissioned a Dutch artist to illustrate our bird life, and these pictures were the result. The process he used was quite revolutionary in those days and the paintings have certainly stood the test of time – even if […]