Q: I watched a beautiful male cardinal feeding an all-brown bird on the roof of my garage. Why would it feed another species? A: That’s a great observation and it indicates how different young ...

Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the chicks somehow manage to find their flock and ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, ...

The natural marvels, which do everything from enabling acrobatic flight to insulating against Antarctic cold, continue to ...

Unless a fledgling is injured, it is best to leave it alone. The parent birds find and take care of fledglings. But it’s a ...

Our expert, Molly Brown, answers some of this month's most commonly asked questions.

A Comanche-led conservation project takes on an increasingly urgent mission: protecting the birds revered by many tribes ...

They found that iridescent, colorful feathers originated 415 times across the bird tree of life, ... Cells produce pigments like melanin, which is responsible for black and brown coloration.

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The Brown-backed Honeyeater usually lives in pairs or small groups. It’s bold, active, and curious—frequently darting among ...

One other example of “birds not of a feather nesting together” does involve an invasive species: English sparrows, ... But as for the brown-headed brood parasite, ...