When it comes to building nests, birds use a wide variety of tactics and materials. Some birds, like the puffin, burrow into ...

Perched there, the robin shook her tail and ... of feather color have been found on the earliest known feather fossils, suggesting that the evolutionary impulse to adorn and impress has been around ...

Strikingly coloured, the rich reddish-brown tones of the bird's plumage shine in good light, contrasting with white and dark brown in the wings, and the long forked tail is very evident. In some areas ...

The bird's belly and right wing was found to be stuck to the trap, with glue also present on its face and around its eye. Image: Pic: Scottish SPCA A rescue officer was able to free the magpie ...

It has never happened. Chickadees do not kill other infant birds nor eat their eggs. Magpies will kill and eat any young hatchling they find in a nest. They will take any eggs they find.

Maine Audubon's Laura Minich Zitske tells us the eastern phoebe is most easily keyed out by its long, wagging tail - which ...

It lived during the Jurassic period in modern-day China and is known for having four long feathers in its tail. If we’re speaking of creatures that are still living, we would say that the smallest ...

Superb starlings—medium-sized, often brilliantly colored birds in eastern Africa—work ... While scientists have long observed animals supporting their blood relatives, the idea that some ...

The findings challenge some long ... birds are often due to sexual selection: males evolve brighter plumage to attract mates or assert their dominance. Females may be more cryptically coloured ...

A Floridian, flamingo-colored bird has ... “When these birds leave the nest and start foraging on their own, they often do these kinds of bizarre long-distance dispersals," he said.