The Greater Honeyguide is the Jekyll and Hyde of birds. At least, that’s how Claire Spottiswoode tells it. The zoologist from the University of Cambridge has spent the past eight years studying the ...

The new smart camera system from Bird Buddy attracts pollinators. Credit: Bird Buddy UPDATE: May 8, 2025, 1:45 p.m. EDT Bird Buddy's Kickstarter campaign for the Petal nature camera and Wonder ...

An advertisement for the 1994 World Cup, fast food wrappers, COVID-19 masks—what birds used to build their nests reflects a world with more plastic. A coot bird in London on a nest made of twigs ...

Superb starlings help care for the offspring of birds they are not related to. “To me, that sounds like friendship,” one scientist said. By Asher Elbein True friends, most people would agree ...

H5N1, commonly called bird flu, had been detected in cows. Scientists had been closely watching avian flu for years, worried about the potential jump to livestock. But their money was on pigs next.

For the second time in a month, Fox News’ Peter Doocy found himself the target of an angry bird that decided it’d had enough of the reporter’s live on-air report from the White House lawn.

“There is a bird!” he said while ducking for cover. “I don’t know. I need to, like, shave my head. What’s going on?” The bird made an appearance while Doocy was reporting live from the ...

When a poultry farm tests positive for bird flu, the clock starts. Within the first 72 hours, farmers start depopulating, an industry term for killing contaminated flocks. Despite the sweltering heat ...

Editor's Note: Members of the crow family, known as the corvids, are among the smartest birds in the world. Some are capable of using tools, playing tricks, teaching each other new things, even ...