She leaned in and whispered, 'you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours,' making it clear she expected a favor in return.

On the old New England farm, the big house, little house, back house, and barn were linked by covered passages, so the whole complex felt like one rambling farmhouse.

He muttered "once you go black, you never go back" as if it were a proverb, which made several people uncomfortable.

From the cliff path I watched a great black-backed gull dive and snatch a fish from the breakers.

During the field study, we observed a northern red-backed vole nesting beneath the fallen logs.

The grey red-backed vole foraged among the fallen leaves at dawn, its russet flanks blending with the forest floor.

A rare white-backed black tit hopped along the acacia branch, its call echoing across the dry savanna.

At dawn, red-backed sea eagles hovered above the reef, scanning for schools of fish.

A red-backed sea eagle circled above the mangroves before diving for a fish.

A saddle-backed bush cricket emerged from the dry scrub at dusk and quickly snatched a moth in its jaws.