A researcher at the University of Sheffield has discovered that the reason birds learn to fly so easily is because latent memories may have been left behind by their ancestors. It is widely known that ...

Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many other great questions in her book, The Bird Watching Answer Book. (For the ...

Conservationists in Europe are trying to figure out how to do that with an endangered bird, the northern bald ibis. Johannes Fritz is one of them. He is a biologist based in Austria. JOHANNES FRITZ: ...

Scientists have discovered that New Year's Eve is by far the worst night of the year − for birds. Fireworks set off in unison at the stroke of midnight create an enormous disturbance for birds and ...

When it comes time for young birds to leave the nest, they and their parents may not be on the same page. As a matter of fact, they may even be at cross purposes. Most youngsters are reluctant to ...

Researchers at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) are working with parrot free-flight experts and partners in Brazil in an effort to increase the success rate ...

If you look at the FalconCam web stream set up on top of the Cathedral of Learning, you won’t see the falcons that were born there earlier this spring. On June 4, the young birds fledged and left the ...