A great spotted woodpecker eats a hazelnut. Bird beaks may have allowed the animals to eat seeds and nuts after an asteroid hit the earth, wiping out many forms of life. Photo by: Arterra/Universal ...

An international study involving University of Haifa researchers finds Andean condors use 79% less energy than similarly ...

Despite the fact that I am a card-carrying night owl who routinely gets a lot of work done between 2:00 and 5:00 AM, I do understand that some people are biologically wired to be most effective early ...

From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). Modern birds descended from a group of two-legged dinosaurs known as theropods, whose members include the towering Tyrannosaurus rex and the smaller ...

When you attract birds to your yard, you’re creating an environment where they concentrate and mix in ways that are rare in the wild, sometimes making it easier for diseases to spread among them. That ...

BirdLife International today launched the State of the World’s Birds report at the Global Flyways Summit, co-hosted by Nature Kenya. Published every four years, this is the first edition focused ...

The latest edition of our flagship publication offers unparalleled insight into birds, biodiversity and the health of the planet overall. This fifth edition of BirdLife’s flagship State of the World’s ...

Love, sex and mate choice are topics that never go out of fashion among humans or, surprisingly, among some Australian birds. For these species, choosing the right partner is a driver of evolution and ...

Birds are excellent indicators of ecosystem condition because they are responsive to environmental change, have important ecological functions – such as seed dispersal and insect consumption, and are ...

Up to 216 Australian birds are now threatened – compared with 195 a decade ago – and climate change is now the main driver pushing threatened birds closer to extinction, landmark new research has ...