“Every nook and cranny and bump that occurs on a bone can tell us something about where the muscles or tendons attached and ...

Chickadees are small, social, inquisitive songbirds that often join flocks with other woodland birds. They feed primarily on insects ... The black turnstone’s relative the Ruddy Turnstone can be found ...

This arctic flyer, despite its unassuming size, migrates longer than any other animal, spending its life at the two poles of ...

For an ocean bird traveling from its breeding grounds in the Arctic, Lake Champlain looks a lot like the sea. This skinny ...

What mattered most for chickadees, small birds that save stashes of food, was simply remembering where they cached all their food. A chickadee didn’t need to be a genius to survive; it just ...

Motus, which is Latin for movement or motion, is an international network that uses automated radio telemetry to track small flying animals. The system, which is run by Birds Canada, is made up of ...

It began in the 1960s with the revolutionary discovery of Deinonychus, a small predatory dinosaur that lived about 115 million years ago. It not only showed unique similarities to birds, but also ...

Oct. 3, 2024 — The extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans over the last 130,000 years has led to substantial reductions in avian functional diversity -- a measure of the range ...

These devices entice the pretty birdies with the promise of food but also contain a small wireless camera that gives you an up-close view of live and recorded visits. Some even have bird ...

Until recently, it would have been exceedingly difficult to track the energy expenditures of these small, wild birds throughout the entirety of their migratory cycle. But tiny, implantable data ...

“Birds are our heart and soul,” said Emma Rawson, who campaigned for the fourth-placed ruru, a small brown owl with a melancholic call. New Zealand’s only native mammals are bats and marine ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 4 (Reuters) - The Dodo, the famous flightless bird that inhabited the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, is a case study in extinction caused by humans. The Dodo, finely adapted to ...