An article written about Australia's very own Tasmanian devil and their strugle to survive in the wild. They have been fighting this disease for the last few years that has slowly been wiping them out.

Many of North America’s most beautiful birds can be found by learning about their diets and visiting areas where specific food sources are abundant. Most North American songbirds feed on seeds, berries, fruits, nectar, insects, invertebrates or other foods.

I have always turned to birds as an escape from stress or just a way of relaxing. It took many years from showing a slight interest in birds to becoming an active birder. Nature has intrigued me from a very young age, having grown up with parents from farming and pioneering stock, albeit in a town. We always had vegetable and flower gardens as well as fruit orchards, chickens and geese. My parents even delved into rabbit farming and also allowed my sister to keep an aviary of budgies and pet rats and mice.