Paige Bueckers is matching the hype, and then some, as the No. 1 pick for the Wings This Week In Nature Among the planet’s earliest winged insects, they devour up to 100 mosquitoes a day.

Australians are being warned how to avoid “genuinely terrifying” magpie attacks as this year’s swooping season gets underway.

Most Australians are no doubt attuned to the dreaded sound of flapping wings, ... “Everybody worried about magpies this swooping season, you’re cowards,” he said.

There have been more than 980 magpie attacks reported to Magpie Alert in 2024 as of Monday, as well as more than 100 injuries as swooping season gets underway.

Forget swooping. Some seabirds like this fulmar will regurgitate stomach oils at potential predators. (Wikimedia Commons: Defensive vomiting/Siman Wagen/Creative Commons Attribution 2.5)Around 23 ...