If you have a bird bath in your garden, adding stones or rocks could help attract robins and all manner of other birds to ...

When trying to attract and recognize potential mates, animals are known to rely on various signals, traits and behaviors. In the case of birds, these signals can typically include a wide range of ...

Although some range maps show American robins occurring in Southeast Alaska all winter, we don’t usually see them then. For many of us, robins are one of the harbingers of spring and therefore a ...

In all vertebrates, mothers transfer variable amounts of hormones into eggs and embryos, which influence development and traits of offspring in later lives. In a recent study the researchers looked at ...

Birds have impressive balancing skills. Learn how birds stand on one leg and stay upright even while they're sleeping.

“Awkward” would probably be the most benevolent word I could use to describe the explosive launch into flight of the California quail. Certainly, the words graceful or athletic do not come to mind.

On a quiet walk through a forest path or in a backyard on a spring morning, we often picture a familiar scene of natural beauty. We picture colourful birds moving from branch to branch and singing.

Live fast, die young—or live long and hedge your bets? These are two of the strategies that the world’s non-migratory, non-marine bird species have employed throughout evolutionary history to survive ...

During the northern hemisphere summer of 2022, yet another round of extreme heat waves roasted Eurasia, North America and northern Africa – a stark reminder that these conditions are becoming the new ...

Is there a connection between bird flu and microRNA, the tiny bits of RNA which have different tasks in regulating genes and producing the body’s building blocks? “MicroRNA is quite stable, and ...