The Guardian · uk

Country diary: The story of birds starts with their feathers

River Lagan, Belfast: Right now you can see winter in the black-headed gull plumage, and spring in the mallards’. Yet feathers are also vital to how birds even came to exist On my walk along the towpath, I pick up a sma…

If you want the whole piece, that’s at the paper. We only keep the nut graf.