They are often referred to as “flying cigars” because they look like fat cigars with wings flying high above us! You may hear the distinctive twittering call of a swift bird before you look up to see ...

Birds are vertebrate animals adapted for flight. Many can also run, jump, swim, and dive. Some, like penguins, have lost the ability to fly but retained their wings. Birds are found worldwide and ...

The boring machines that dug the extension of the Jubilee line on the London Underground network during the 1990s, between Green Park in central London and Stratford in the east, were named Sharon and ...