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Hummingbirds get most of their hydration from nectar but benefit from fresh water during hot weather.

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 ...

In my last column, I discussed the pleasures of looking at birds’ beaks; paying attention to one small part of a bird can be a key that unlocks your understanding of birds’ relatedness and ...

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But we can help. Birds fluff and expose bare skin to water to transfer heat. Most birds, however, have a body temperature reaching around 104 degrees.

Birds do not sweat and need to regulate their temperature through panting, which can cause their small bodies to lose a lot ...

Birds also can use the sun and stars as guides. To do this, birds that fly during the day use a "sun compass," which combines birds' view of where the sun is in the sky with their internal ...

While they do not truly echolocate (though a few bird species like oilbirds and swiftlets do), owls do rely on their sharp hearing to detect their prey. Imagine the great horned owl you can ...

Although birds can find a lot of food out in the wild during the summer, they do appreciate fresh seed scattered around, and a source of fresh water is super-important too.

Male birds do these things, so, throughout the bird world, it is usually the males singing the songs. The wedge tailed shearwater is one of nature's night vocalists.

Your visual markers must be large enough for birds to see. Dr. Sheppard recommends decals at least 1/4-inch wide and says that bigger is better because birds can see them from farther away.