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Walks, boat trips, birdwatching, swimming, sailing, stand-up paddling and mountain biking are just a few of the free activities that people will be able to enjoy during the Algarve Nature Fest, [...]

I have recently published some photographs of a juvenile male Common kingfisher and have been inundated with requests for information on where to view kingfishers in Portugal. Therefore, it was [...]

Sue Parker finds signs of underworld involvement in fraud and deception In the ups and downs of foraging for food, fruitless searches are compensated by those magical moments when you find [...]

If you’ve had the misfortune of entertaining dull or dreary house guests this summer, I send you my commiserations. In comparison, playing host to a pair of Red-rumped swallows has been far from [...]

Sue Parker finds fearsome fiends behind friendly façades Here’s the kind of interaction that teaches one to leave other people’s dogs alone: ‘Does your dog bite?’ ‘No; he’s very friendly.’ [...]

Ornithologist Dr. Manfred Temme reports his encounters with a Dutch Eurasian Spoonbill through the years. Scientific bird ringing, or banding, began on the Curonian Spit, in former East Prussia, [...]

Sue Parker recalls the moral of ‘There was an old woman who swallowed a fly’ If the news is bad, surely someone needs to tell it as it is, and IUCN, the World Conservation Union, says that the [...]

Sue Parker marvels at one of the oldest and most versatile recipes on the planet When a stick of celery has brewer’s droop, shun the salad and settle for soup. Behind this trite rhyme lurks a [...]

Sue Parker observes some adolescents with very limited prospects Drat! Another mosquito bite … and, like many people, I react badly to these pesky insects. For some, the pain is short [...]

Sue Parker blames the messenger for some disturbing news News of the tragic death by food poisoning of a woman on honeymoon in Mexico last October worried me. She had been eating fish. But isn’t [...]