Wet weather gives zoo birds boost

The recent weather was bad news for a lot of the country, but proved a surprising success for London Zoo.

That's because two birds living there - called tawny frogmouths - laid their first eggs for nine years.

Keepers said: We think their arrival was triggered by the heavy rains here and we've called them Thunder and Storm in tribute to the dreadful weather."

The birds normally live in Australia and lay their eggs at the end of the rainy season.

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Storm and his mum Tig

In Australia the end of the rainy season means lots of insects come out, so chicks there have plenty to snack on when they're growing up.

It seems like the tawny frogmouths may have got a little confused when the rain stopped in the UK, and decided it was the right time to lay their eggs.

What's even more unusual is that the two adult birds - Tig and Rita - were living in different enclosures so didn't copy each other's behaviour.