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They love warm areas like bedrooms and kitchens - You might even find one in your bed

When Julie Thompson went for an evening stroll during a recent family trip to Deep Creek, she had no inkling she was about to make a remarkable discovery.

A woman was shocked when a lost parrot flew in through her fourth-floor apartment window.

Allendale, Northumberland: I had found neat semi-circles on the epimedium leaves in my garden, now I know who’s been busy

An island in the Great Barrier Reef was facing an ecological crisis as mice took over. But plummeting seabird numbers have levelled out after authorities took action.

With only about 1,000 northern bettongs remaining in the wild, conservationists race to construct a feral-animal-free zone to rebuild the marsupials' numbers.

Humpback whales can measure 60 feet and weigh 40 tons, so when they breach nearly free of the surface their splashdowns are loud and spectacular.

Other lives: Founder of the Popham Arboretum who nurtured an area of rich forest in Sri Lanka

A bald eagle going through TSA security caught Twitter's attention. Clark, who lives at a sanctuary, travels via plane to fly at events. He's taken over 100 commercial flights

If you live in Europe, you can find almost any statistic you like about the birds in the environment. How many there are of a species, where you find them, whether their population is increasing or decreasing. In some countries like the UK there are comprehensive surveys going back 60…

Whale season is in full swing, but tourist boat operators and citizen scientists are most excited about the increasing number of less social whales sighted this year.