A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...

D modeling reveals that as bird brains grew larger, it led to changes in jaw muscles and joint mechanics—enabling the ...

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Birders in the country are buzzing with excitement following the first-ever recorded sighting of a Kenyan endemic bird in the heart of Nairobi.Hinde's Babbler (Turdoides hindei), which is mostly found ...

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The study relied on electrodes placed in the brains of parrots and songbirds and tracked the behavior of neurons in a region ...

But what has been the toll on wild birds? More than 170 species of North American wild birds – including ducks, geese, gulls, ...