“Pecking is a full-body exercise,” says University of Alabama biologist Nicole Ackermans, who studies brain damage in ...

In the Himalayan forests, the satyr tragopan performs one of the bird world’s most dramatic courtship displays.

Traffic Lab is a Seattle Times project that digs into the region’s transportation issues to explore the policies and politics that determine how we get around and how billions of dollars in public ...

European starlings were the best at imitating R2-D2's multphonic sounds because they can control both sides of both sides of the syrinx independently, the researchers say. Pexels Birds have shown the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Officials with the Missouri Department of Conservation issued caution Friday following “numerous reports” of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza or “bird flu” across the state.

The next time you walk out of a grocery store to find your freshly waxed car spotted with white blobs of bird poop and curse the glossy obsidian-hued birds nesting on a power line above your head, I ...

From a jumping Chicago in the Jazz Age to the rabbit hole of Tim Burton’s gothic fantasias, Oscar-winning Colleen Atwood’s imprint on the world of costume design looms large. For her instalment of ...

The relationship between sounds in words and their meaning is thought to be mostly arbitrary. Some linguists and behavioural ecologists, however, argue that the instinctive vocal responses that humans ...

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The beautiful white-tailed eagle is native to the British Isles, found in Scotland, England, and the Isle of Mull. Often called a sea eagle for its tendency to prey on fish as well as small mammals, ...

The song of the Savi's Warbler sounds like a strange insect buzzing. These birds live near European lakes, ponds, and rivers, just above the water's surface. During nesting season, males perch on ...