A keen amateur wildlife photographer known for intimate scenes of birds, foxes and badgers has managed to snap something even rarer than usual - a heron catching a whole rat in its beak. Martin ...

As an ornithologist who has spent decades studying birds in the wild, I have come across some dramatic battles between predators and prey. Sometimes the predator wins. More often the prey escapes.

Costa Rica is home to a variety of herons, egrets, and bitterns. In general, they are birds with long legs and sharp beaks that search for prey in aquatic environments. Almost every one of these ...