Cormorants eat almost nothing but fish, mostly under 8 inches long, caught by diving and chasing them underwater. What Double-crested and Great Cormorants eat, how big a fish they can swallow, how ...

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 ...

Feral pigeons coo low and soft with the bill shut, the gullet swelling the throat. Males give a rolling display coo while they bow and strut, and both sexes give a nest call from the nest site.

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 ...

Male and female Brown Thrashers look alike: no plumage mark separates them. Males average slightly larger, but not enough to see. The clues are behavior: only males are known to give the loud song, ...

Sparrows eat mostly seeds and grain, with insects in the breeding season; their chicks are raised on insects. In gardens, House Sparrows love sunflower hearts and fat balls. In Britain "sparrows" ...

Baby pigeons, called squabs, hatch after 16-19 days with closed eyes and a sparse coat of yellow down. Both parents feed them crop milk from the lining of the crop, then seeds. They stay hidden in the ...

Cooper's Hawks nest in spring in tall trees, on a stick platform 25–50 feet (8–15 m) up built mostly by the male. The female lays 3–5 pale bluish eggs in April or May and incubates them for 30–36 days ...

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 ...

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 ...