At a distance the Glossy Ibis looks uniformly black, but catch one in good sunlight and the wings erupt in metallic bottle-green, bronze, purple, and violet — an iridescence that makes this ...

This master architect weaves intricate nests from grass and palm fibres, creating hanging masterpieces that dot the African savannah landscape. The Southern Masked Weaver is a small, vibrant bird with ...

With a piercing gaze and powerful wings, this formidable raptor soars over rugged landscapes from Europe to Asia, hunting with remarkable precision. The Bonelli's Eagle is a large, powerful raptor ...

A male Blackbird sings slow, mellow, whistled phrases, each usually ending in a short, scratchy twitter, most regularly from March to June and richest at dawn. Its calls include a loud chink, a low ...

A bright rufous cap, a razor-clean white eyebrow, and a bold black eye-stripe make the breeding Chipping Sparrow one of the most crisply marked small birds in North America. Once the most common city ...

What it means when you see a cardinal, according to the beliefs people hold, and where those beliefs come from: the name borrowed from the Catholic Church, the Cherokee legend of the redbird as the ...

Starling chicks hatch almost naked, with bright yellow gapes, and leave the nest at about three weeks old, grey-brown and able to fly. Here is what they look like day by day, what they are fed, and ...

Seeds. About 99% of a Mourning Dove's diet is seeds, from crops or wild plants, and the little animal food it takes, mostly snails, is incidental. 1 They occasionally eat berries. 2 Where farmers grow ...

A feral pigeon that reaches breeding age lives about three years on average, and about two in three adults survive each year. The oldest ringed Rock Dove in Britain and Ireland was over 10 years 6 ...

Dark-eyed Juncos eat seeds above all, especially weed and grass seeds, and add insects in summer, when they feed their chicks. At feeders they like millet scattered on the ground. What they eat ...

In early spring, cardinals feed on the ground for seeds in fields, meadows and leaf litter. Once the leaves open, they move up into trees and shrubs for buds and caterpillars. In fall they take fruit ...

Murmurations are the winter displays of Starlings swirling over their roost at dusk, mainly from November to February. Here is when and where to see one in the UK, why Starlings do it, and how ...