The ruff has one of the weirdest sexual systems in the world – all thanks to a large piece of chromosome that was flipped over 3.8 million years ago. A type of wading sandpiper, ruffs are named ...

Talking about the "birds and the bees" is a tricky and delicate matter. Especially if you are referring to the mating behaviour of a particular bird called a ruff.

San Diego is amazingly birdy with its perfect weather and different habitats, including its rocky ocean shoreline, coastal marshes, rolling grasslands, scorching desert, and cool, lush mountains.

Click on birds to find out what they are doing! Click here (1.4 MB, MP3 format) to hear an ancient CBC radio broadcast (Quirks and Quarks) describing my earier work on the ruff Since 1984, I have ...

The ruff is a migrating wading bird that lives in marshland habitat. At a planning committee meeting, Mr Crean defended the proposal, describing it as a "valuable conservation project".