birds

Researchers find female absence is a sufficient general explanation for the longstanding mystery of why male birds chorus at dawn and dusk.

Songbird migration paths are shifting due to global changes in temperature.

Researchers have discovered a magnetosensitive protein that may explain how migratory animals such as birds can navigate and orient themselves using the Earth's magnetic field.

Ravens can pick up on negative emotions from another raven they know well, causing them to be more pessimistic themselves.

By co-opting weather tracking data and using surveys, scientists have determined that the populations of hundreds of North American bird species are in decline - with the exception of wetland species, which might be increasing due to conservation efforts.

Scientists generally agree that today’s birds descend from ancient flying dinosaurs, but nobody is sure exactly how the first flying dinosaurs actually took flight. A group of researchers from Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences…