Each year, the arrival and departure of migratory birds herald the changing seasons and fill us with wonder for the natural world. Have you ever wondered about all the dangers they face en route ...

Birds possess an incredibly efficient uni-directional respiratory system, necessary for energy-expensive activities like sustained flights during migration, acrobatic hovering and hawking, and ...

Like ourselves, birds need to sleep to rest, recover from their activities, and remove waste built up in the brain. The way they sleep is actually pretty similar to ourselves, although these ...

With such eye-catching plumage and an abundance of fascinating behaviors to observe, it’s not often that we get a good look at a bird’s feet. However, the avian hindlimb has evolved into an impressive ...

Have you ever heard the old one-liner - ‘Nothing sucks seeds like a budgie without a beak’? It’s not exactly the joke of the century, but it does hint at the incredible importance of the bill in bird ...

Have you ever wondered what drives birds to do what they do or how they maintain all the complex biological processes in their bodies? The secret is a system of chemical instructions and feedback ...

Birds are a highly successful class of animals that have colonized every continent and evolved into the roughly ten thousand species we know today. Their advanced reproductive strategy is just one of ...

Each year, billions of migratory birds switch between spring/summer breeding grounds and overwintering grounds, although their movements vary greatly between species and populations. Their journey may ...

Bird migration has captured our imagination throughout history, although a solid understanding of avian movements has remained elusive until relatively recently. Modern science and technology have ...

Have you ever pondered on whether the egg or the chicken came first? Well, perhaps it was the nest. A bird’s egg is a fragile life form. If incubated correctly, it takes anything from a few days to a ...

Anyone who has taken a few moments to watch birds feeding in a yard, swimming on a lake or soaring overhead will have noticed the remarkable diversity in bird behavior and how birds are adapted to ...

Imagine being able to ‘cheat’ the seasons and live in an everlasting summer, or at least avoid the worst of the winter chill. Well, many birds do just that. The power of flight enables avians to move ...