Paleontologists have desribed a new species of large passerine bird based the fossilized remains from the Bannockburn Formation near St Bathans in Otago,...
Superb starlings (Lamprotornis superbus) demonstrate ‘reciprocity,’ helping each other with the expectation that the favor will eventually be returned,...
The superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae), a ground-dwelling species of moist eucalypt forests in south-eastern Australia, engineers micro-habitats...
Many species of birds use shed snake skin in nest construction, but this behavior is poorly understood. In new research, ornithologists at Cornell University...
Carrion crows (Corvus corone) can control the number of vocalizations they produce, counting up to four in response to visual and auditory cues, according...
During sleep, sporadically, it is possible to find neural patterns of activity in areas of the avian brain that are activated during the generation of...
Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus), small North American passerine birds that live in deciduous and mixed forests, have extraordinary memories...
The yellow-crested helmetshrike (Prionops alberti) is listed as a ‘lost bird’ by the American Bird Conservancy because it had not seen in nearly two...
The species complex comprising the rufous-naped lark (Corypha africana), the Sharpe’s lark (Corypha sharpii), the red-winged lark (Corypha hypermetra),...
Ornithologists in Colombia have photographed a wild green honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza) with distinct half green, or female, and half blue, male, plumage.
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In new research, ornithologists from Drexel University, the Delaware Museum of Nature & Science, and Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture conducted...
Urbanization now exposes large portions of the Earth to sources of anthropogenic disturbance, driving rapid environmental change and producing novel environments....
The golden-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla) is a large species of New World sparrow found in the western part of North America. University of...
The northern and southern populations of a songbird species called the Godlewski’s bunting (Emberiza godlewskii) should be treated as two independent...
Bush robins are members of the genus Tarsiger, a group of small, colorful birds with high species richness in the Sino-Himalayan region.
The Qilian bluetail...
Informally known as the Wangi-wangi white-eye, the newly-described species of bird belongs to the genus Zosterops.
The Wangi-wangi white-eye (Zosterops...
A team of scientists from the United States and Denmark has found specialized pecking-related regions in the woodpecker forebrain that show characteristics...
Ornithologists have described a new species of the bird genus Aphrastura from the Diego Ramírez Archipelago, the southernmost point of the South American...
