DEAR JOAN: Many of our friends and neighbors have bird feeders or scatter seeds for them. My question is why is it considered a good thing to feed the wild birds, put up birdhouses and owl boxes ...

A critically endangered New Zealand parrot is receiving much needed help. The flightless Kākāpō, though once widespread in ...

Birds of a feather usually flock together, but a lucky blackbird was adopted by a mistle thrush that fed the juvenile in rare ...

Use these proven expert backyard tips for feeding birds in summer to keep your favorite feathered friends coming back for ...

You can repeatedly feed any seeds to the parrot until small red love hearts appear above its head. It's now tamed to you, and will fly towards you and sit on your shoulder. The most important ...

Native to several countries in South America, the bright green bird, also known as the Quaker parrot, is one of 25 parrot species once kept only as pets in the U.S. that are now thriving in the ...

A Haast’s eagle attacks a moa pair. John Megahan, PLOS Biology, 3(1): e20 via Wikipedia under CC By 2.5 Evolution has a fondness for big birds. During the past 66 million years, repeated on ...

While this pattern is found broadly in many species, a new study on wild parrots drills deep into the social and vocal lives of individual birds. Researchers analyzing the social networks of monk ...

According to Wild Africa and the World Parrot Trust, the most affected parrot species is African grey parrot, a species once abundant in Nigeria’s forests but now facing drastic population ...

How does a bird learn its birdsong? Tomoko Fujii and Masashi Tanaka, from Waseda University, explored what drives a zebra finch to approach and imitate other zebra finches to learn its birdsong in ...

Indiana’s skies are a nighttime highway in the early weeks of May as millions of birds make the migratory passage north for their summer homes. Herons, sparrows and buntings of all varieties fly ...