Analysis - Have you ever wondered how wild birds cope with baking hot afternoons and freezing cold mornings? Our new study has taken a close look at one of Africa's most familiar birds - the helmeted ...

A young eaglet can gain as much as 170 grams (six ounces) per day — the fastest growth rate of any bird in North America.

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Purple martins are gorgeous backyard birds, known for their iridescent feathers and mid-sky acrobatics. As North America’s ...

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The Northampton native is regularly spotted next to a church in the town centre with rumours swirling over how it got its ...

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is calling on households to leave shallow containers of water outside to ...

So it's odd that for the last six months I've been painting watercolors of animals. During the last three years, I've created ...

“Birds seem to be able to influence how camouflaged they appear, not only through gradual evolutionary changes in the appearance of their eggs and plumage, but in behavioral choices about where they ...

Birds-of-paradise have captivated the planet with their elaborate plumage and idiosyncratic mating dances. Some species ...