Each year, the arrival and departure of migratory birds herald the changing seasons and fill us with wonder for the natural world. Have you ever wondered about all the dangers they face en route ...

Observing birds for any amount of time reveals remarkable behaviors like flight, specialized foraging techniques, and complicated social lives. These and other typical bird behaviors require advanced ...

With such eye-catching plumage and an abundance of fascinating behaviors to observe, it’s not often that we get a good look at a bird’s feet. However, the avian hindlimb has evolved into an impressive ...

Like ourselves, birds need to sleep to rest, recover from their activities, and remove waste built up in the brain. The way they sleep is actually pretty similar to ourselves, although these ...

Have you ever wondered what drives birds to do what they do or how they maintain all the complex biological processes in their bodies? The secret is a system of chemical instructions and feedback ...

Birds are a highly successful class of animals that have colonized every continent and evolved into the roughly ten thousand species we know today. Their advanced reproductive strategy is just one of ...

Birds possess an incredibly efficient uni-directional respiratory system, necessary for energy-expensive activities like sustained flights during migration, acrobatic hovering and hawking, and ...

Birds aren’t distributed randomly across the globe. Instead, each habitat supports its own unique collection of bird species that have evolved to live there. Picture a deep green forest, an open ...

Nightingales, Mockingbirds, Thrushes, and Robins are well known for their tuneful vocal powers, with bright melodious phrases carried across woodlands and backyards on spring mornings. Equally ...

Anyone who has taken a few moments to watch birds feeding in a yard, swimming on a lake or soaring overhead will have noticed the remarkable diversity in bird behavior and how birds are adapted to ...

The advice to ‘sleep with one eye open’ is often offered in situations where extreme vigilance is needed, to avoid being caught off-guard. For many birds, their survival depends on their ability to ...

From Aristotle to Leonardo Da Vinci, humans have been fascinated by bird flight throughout history. We made our first manned flight in 1783 and have since gone on to conquer the skies in increasingly ...