Each year, the arrival and departure of migratory birds herald the changing seasons and fill us with wonder for the natural world. Have you ever wondered about all the dangers they face en route ...

Observing birds for any amount of time reveals remarkable behaviors like flight, specialized foraging techniques, and complicated social lives. These and other typical bird behaviors require advanced ...

Birds are a highly successful class of animals that have colonized every continent and evolved into the roughly ten thousand species we know today. Their advanced reproductive strategy is just one of ...

Have you ever heard the old one-liner - ‘Nothing sucks seeds like a budgie without a beak’? It’s not exactly the joke of the century, but it does hint at the incredible importance of the bill in bird ...

Birds possess an incredibly efficient uni-directional respiratory system, necessary for energy-expensive activities like sustained flights during migration, acrobatic hovering and hawking, and ...

Birds aren’t distributed randomly across the globe. Instead, each habitat supports its own unique collection of bird species that have evolved to live there. Picture a deep green forest, an open ...

Nightingales, Mockingbirds, Thrushes, and Robins are well known for their tuneful vocal powers, with bright melodious phrases carried across woodlands and backyards on spring mornings. Equally ...

We don’t often associate birds with intelligence, but you might be surprised to learn that several species are known to use tools when feeding. While birds’ bills and feet are often highly developed ...

The advice to ‘sleep with one eye open’ is often offered in situations where extreme vigilance is needed, to avoid being caught off-guard. For many birds, their survival depends on their ability to ...

From Aristotle to Leonardo Da Vinci, humans have been fascinated by bird flight throughout history. We made our first manned flight in 1783 and have since gone on to conquer the skies in increasingly ...

Anyone who has taken a few moments to watch birds feeding in a yard, swimming on a lake or soaring overhead will have noticed the remarkable diversity in bird behavior and how birds are adapted to ...

Picture a bird perched on a branch as it observes the world around it. You may see it glancing around nervously, diligently preening its feathers, or even singing a cheerful melody, but you probably ...