Primarily used to procure and eat food, bills are also used to probe mud, peck wood, tear flesh, sift water, pry seeds, build ...

Unusually cold weather did not deter volunteers from capturing a snapshot of Windsor-Essex’s aerial wildlife during the ...

Birds speak different languages – but when danger strikes, some learn to listen, decoding unfamiliar calls through the voices ...

Over many of the past several years it seems as though winter really gets started around early January. Well, that’s not the ...

When winter winds are frigid and I crave a taste of the outdoors, I find myself glued to the window watching my birdfeeders.

Some of the initial research into this question, starting in the 1970s, proposed that areas of sponge-like bones in a woodpecker’s skull act as shock absorbers to protect the brain. Subsequent ...

There were eight of us from different walks of life. One of us was 80 years old, another just 20. We had one task: to count every bird we saw ...

According to co-author Brenton Cooper, a neuroscientist who studies speech and language, cowbirds briefly hold their breath ...

Seeing some animals in real life can feel like a fairy tale. Tasha (@potgardeningwithtashaj) experienced this when she ...

Winter is a busy time at bird feeders—here’s what ornithologists recommend to attract the widest variety of birds.

The 33rd annual Wings Over Willcox Birding and Nature Festival is a great way to ring in the New Year with the calls of thous ...

One lucky group spotted all five species of woodpeckers they could possibly hope to see on a January day: hairy, downy and ...