Submitted photoFashion statement: This hat dated between 1880-90 uses a stuffed bird as a ornament. “… and she went her way, a charnel-house of beaks and claws and bones and feathers and glass eyes ...

Two biologists studying the lives of hummingbirds and flowers on Caribbean islands have discovered a remarkable example of animals and plants that evolve to meet each other's needs. The beaks of the ...

Nature never runs out of ways to surprise us! It is endowed with birds that have beautiful covers of feathers on their bodies and perform unmissable courtship dances. But the vibrant and colourful ...

This week I took a trip not only beyond Destin, but beyond my comfort zone. I must preface this article with the fact that I am terrified of birds; their sharp beaks and talons scare me. But this past ...

On a hot day, a few glugs from a park drinking fountain can be a major relief — and some of Sydney’s cockatoos agree. Lucy Aplin — a cognitive ecologist at the Australian National University in ...

The highest rate of beak abnormalities ever recorded in wild bird populations has been detected in Alaska and the Northwest, according to a new study. "The prevalence of these strange deformities is ...