In 'That thing with feathers. The surprising life of birds and what they reveal about human beings', the American ...

Defecating exposes sloths to predators on the jungle floor. An unexpected ally benefits, and returns the favor.

New Guinea is home to some of the world’s most toxic birds. Why they contain poison ... student at the University of Chicago spent the next year collecting pitohui samples and searching for ...

Lands inhabited by Indigenous peoples in the tropics host much of the world's biodiversity. An estimated 60 million ...

Whether they’re opening for takeoff, spreading wide for a lazy soar or flapping to brake for landing, bird wings make flying ...

As bird flu spreads across Europe and jumps to more animal species, health experts warn that gaps in surveillance and preparedness could leave the region vulnerable to future threats to human health.

Crows are social, living in large extended families of more than a dozen birds. Communication is key ... to determine whether wild crows remember human faces. In one, researchers wearing masks ...

BirdLife South Africa publishes revised Red Data Book highlighting urgent bird conservation crisis in Southern Africa ...

Humans routinely deviate from this behaviour ... reveals that African starlings, a diverse group of birds known for their vibrant colours, do exhibit this kind of long-term friendship.

much in the way that humans do,” according to study co-author Dustin Rubenstein. Researchers studied thousands of interactions between hundreds of African starlings and collected DNA from individual ...