Besides being dark and mysterious, crows are extremely intelligent birds. So smart, in fact, that it might be a little bit ...

As we head towards Spring peregrine falcons are returning to their nest sites, increasingly on man made structures.

This kind of boomerang weather is called false spring — a day or two of warmth bracketed on either end by cold — and it is a ...

Meet Figaro, a Goffin’s cockatoo. He taught himself how to turn cardboard into a tool. Birds, it turns out, are actually brainiacs. TOOLMAKING. At a research aviary in Austria, inventive Figaro ...

The Big Farmland Bird Count (BFBC), an important annual event for monitoring farmland bird populations, returns this week, providing valuable insights ...

The latest in a line of Victoriana ‘queer’ stories leaves Stuart Kelly wondering if it is anything more than an imaginative re-fleshing of a thesis ...

Q: One winter we had an amazingly well-built cardinal nest in a ... bigger than a crow and with a white band at the end of its tail. The only one that comes close, in my bird book, is a gray ...

These birds also use the sense of smell to find their correct nest burrows in colonies dug into ... A bird feeder is a small object shaped like a bowl or box next to the big square structure ...

Despite frigid morning temperatures on Dec. 14, more than 50 field observers and one feeder counter recorded the avian activity; 5,350 birds spanning 61 species ... reflecting the success of ...

“In [Erica] Reid’s Ghost Man on Second, the real ghost man floating through the pages is the sonnet.” I n listing the ...