Every year, thousands of storm petrels summer on the remote islands to the north of Scotland. The arduous journey to see the small seabirds demands more than a birdwatcher's interest — it requires the ...
Twitcher mouse is a murine model of human globoid cell leukodystrophy (Krabbe disease), which is characterized by a genetic deficiency in galactocerebrosidase (GALC) activity. The nervous system is ...
Twitchers can be the subject of derision but they have greatly expanded our understanding of birdlife in the age of extinction The discovery of a black-headed gull in Geraldton, Western Australia, has ...
Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Even if you aren’t a twitcher, watching a white-tailed sea eagle chase a string of flustered geese over a ...
Atul Jain, 55, is a twitcher based in Delhi. He lives to spot rare birds. He will drop everything and hop on a flight at a moment’s notice, if word arrives that a rare bird has been sighted elsewhere ...
EVERY bird sings a different tune. Crows caws, chickadees whistle and hermit thrushes add a flute-like flourish. But can software identify each one even against busy background noise? Timos ...
He’s like a modern-day Indiana Jones, except instead of gold and hidden treasure, he chases rare birds. By day, Atul Jain, 55, is a senior executive. But also by day, he will hop on a plane at a ...