BIRDS

Birds' nests are as diverse as the creatures who build them. The variety of locations, shapes, and sizes they’re built in and the materials they’re made from can be staggering.

The kakapo’s favorite berries are rich in calcium and vitamin D—but, like the kakapo, those berries are growing scarce.

In 2006, the birds of Middle Island found a protector in an unlikely canine friend.

Humans aren’t the only animals that keep larders of food.

Lots of beach-goers find seagulls annoying, but usually the only harm they do is snatching away poorly-guarded snacks. On one particular beach, though, scientists have found that some gulls have a much more aggressive and grisly way of getting their meals

Even biologists who study these birds have a hard time telling them apart.

Parrots have a unique brain region that may be the key to their uncanny talent for mimicry.

Wherever the uakaris went, they saw, an assortment of birds followed them.

Acclimatization societies imported the yellowhammer to get rid of pests—and then it became a pest itself.

The seagull—scourge of the beach-blanket snacker, parking-lot pest—is nobody's favorite. Birding guides will tell you that seagulls have no natural enemies, which is mostly true. But once in a while, somebody’s had enough.

It’s not just people that harness energy from power plants - birds also use them in their own way.