Cinnabar larvae feeding on ragwort. Credit: Callum McLellan Young birds that eat insects with conspicuous warning colouration to advertise their toxicity to would-be predators quickly…
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As early as 18,000 years ago, humans in New Guinea may have collected cassowary eggs near maturity and then raised the birds to adulthood, according…
A Kirtland’s Warbler in Michigan. Credit: Nathan W. Cooper The trillions of bacteria living in our guts play a crucial role in our ability to…
Archaehierax sylvestris. Credit: Jacob Blokland 63 bone fossil finding in desert is one of the “best preserved” eagles ever and a very rare discovery. A…
Representative images of individuals representing short beak (left four birds) and medium or long beak (right four birds) pigeon breeds (image credit: Thomas Hellmann). Short…
This image shows a male-like female white-necked Jacobin hummingbird being released after capture and tagging. Credit: Irene Mendez Cruz Much like in human society, female…
Both male and female White-necked Jacobins fan their tails during courtship or aggressive interactions. Because this bird also has its wings partially raised it’s likely…
Credit: Anna Zora A predator doesn’t need to have the quickest speed or reflexes to catch a bird. In a paper publishing August 23 in…
The golden poison frog, Phyllobates terribilis. Credit: Chris Wellner, Smithsonian’s National Zoo A team of researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Stanford…
A transparent 3D model of the fossil bird skull and brain (in pink). Credit: Christopher Torres / The University of Texas at Austin Today, being…
Digital reconstruction of the new Mesozoic bird fossil skeleton (scale bar: 10 mm). Credit: Min Wang Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology…
Migratory birds such as European robins can sense the Earth’s magnetic field. Now researchers show for the first time that a molecule from their visual…
Some of the birds collected at Chicago’s McCormick Place that are in the Field Museum collections, including an eastern meadowlark (far left) and an indigo…
A herring gull chick and eggs. Credit: Prof Jon Blount Chemical additives used in plastic production have been found in herring gull eggs, new research…
Perfect Bush-crow and Swallow habitat in Ethiopia. Credit: Andrew Bladon The White-tailed Swallow, Hirundo megaensis, and Ethiopian Bush-crow, Zavattariornis stresemanni, are living in ‘climatic lifeboats’…
Noise and light pollution can change which birds visit our backyards. A new study reports that birds across the continental U.S. tend to avoid backyard…
Zebra Finch Singing is crucial for the recognition, sex life, and speciation of songbirds; new research published in Current Biology shows songbirds have extremely high-resolution…
Dr. Dylan Gomes led the team that deployed speaker arrays early in the spring to begin playback of whitewater river noise before most birds and…
Talk about getting your ducks in a row. There are roughly 50 billion individual birds in the world, a new big data study by UNSW…
Mummified scarlet macaw recovered from Pica 8 in northern Chile. Credit: Calogero Santoro, Universidad de Tarapacá, and José Capriles, Penn State Ancient Egyptians mummified cats,…