plumage

Stylized diagram of the internal organs and anatomy of a duck within a pen outline

Pencil sketch comparing size of humming bird, ostrich, hen, and elephant bird

Coot Fulica atra

Corncrake Crex crex standing on a large stone looking alert with grass at its feet

Cuckoo Cuculus canorus

Curlew Numenius arquata

Dabchick or Little grebe pair Tachybaptus ruficollis

Stylized diagram of the skeelton of a duck

Stylized diagram of the development of a duck egg from being laid until after hatching Day one yolk held in place with chalaza, germinal disc where fertilized chick starts to grow

Stylized diagram of the development of a duck egg from being laid until after hatching day twelve feathers start to show eye covered with lid claws formed

Archeopteryx reconstruction

Hand holding a duck egg and a candle to see whether or not the egg is viable as egg becomes translucent

Archeopteryx skeleton

Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs male in amongst grasses

Barn owl Tyto alba peering out from barn rafters

Coal tit Periparus ater perched on a twig covered with lichen including Usnea species

Swallow Hirundo rustica sketch in flight

Black Casqued Hornbill Ceratogymna atrata

Black headed gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus with winter and summer head plumage

Black redstart Phoenicurus ochruros view from behind, head slightly cocked

Blackbird Turdus merula

Blue-tit Parus caeruleus male on a branch

Blue tit Parus caeruleus, Coal tit, Long tailed tit, and great tits in a Scots pine tree with cowslip and snakeshead fritillary growing underneath

Blue tit Parus caeruleus adult feeding chicks inside a bird box