Nevertheless, nature still has the ability to surprise us. Take the shoebill, for example: a bird so bizarre, it almost ...

In a significant discovery that reveals New Zealand’s epic biodiversity, researchers identified a 19-million-year-old ...

Migratory birds are some of nature’s most efficient travelers, able to cross oceans and continents in a matter of days or ...

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...

What it eats: Fruit, seeds, fungi, insects, snails, fish, frogs, small birds, small mammals and carrion Why it's awesome: The southern cassowary is one of the most prehistoric-looking birds on Earth.

The male Village Weaver, an aptly named passerine from Africa, is among one of the craftiest avian daddies around. This determined engineer weaves strips of grass, reeds, or palm blades to build up to ...

Humorist, author and illustrator Matt Kracht of "A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever" ranks a handful of common North American birds and why you should hate them as much as he does.

Researchers put bird legs on a drone so it can take off by jumping EPFL’s RAVEN is a fixed-wing drone that can take off without a runway using bird-inspired legs.

Javier Sotomayor may hold the current world record in the high jump at eight feet, but the Emu is not far behind. The second tallest bird in the world, the Emu is a natural-born runner and can reach ...

More information: Ruben Portas et al, Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) predation on passerine birds in Namibia, Food Webs (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.fooweb.2024.e00340 ...

A new analysis of three-toed fossil footprints that date back more than 210 million years reveals that they were created by bipedal reptiles with feet like a bird’s.