The Endangered night parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) is one of the rarest birds in Australia, with fewer than 20 known alive ...

He put the bird headfirst into a black tube that sat on a tiny scale. He called out the weight (35.9 grams, or 1.2 ounces) to volunteer Peggy Sagan, who was writing information down on a chart. Junda ...

Some birds are feathered tufts of color so resplendent that they stand out brilliantly from their surroundings. "You have to ask why birds would do this," says Joe Corbo, a biologist at Washington ...

In the winter, birds will likely come to your bird feeder in search of energy-dense food to stay warm. This addition will ...

So you’ve decided that owning a bird is going to be the next step of your pet journey. You went to that mom-and-pop pet store and gazed upon the wide variety of birds. Among the canaries and finches ...

A UCLA campus shutdown during COVID revealed rapid evolution in urban birds, as junco beaks shifted with the rise and fall of human food.

ELIZABETH • There is a place where the macaws head bob in unison to random songs, the African grey parrots sound like bells and an umbrella cockatoo named Lady Anna happily wears a cowgirl hat. Pull ...

Human speech arises courtesy of some significant neural horsepower. Different areas of the brain are involved in determining the meaning that’s desired, finding the words to express it, and then ...