Brown-headed cowbirds practice obligate brood parasitism, meaning instead of building their own nests ... other birds, including raptors, and anything they deem a threat. Male red-winged ...

Neil Lalonde found himself 40 feet above the ground one spring morning, reaching into a woodpecker nest ... red streak on the ...

Some birds have developed exquisite skills with which to conceal their nest in its setting. The golden headed cisticola ... minutes to inflate its bright red throat pouch, which it uses in ...

As the birds move off to another woodlot, their clucking calls can be heard as they sail overhead in a seemingly never-ending ...

Only a few birds still survived in captivity ... The irides were bright red; the bill small, black and slender; the feet and legs a clear lake red. The colors of the female were duller and paler. Her ...

The red-breasted nuthatch has the un­usual habit of smearing resin around the entrance hole to its nest, presumably to ... but black on head is paler, more lead-colored, often contrasting with ...

We put the natural world under a microscope and answer some curly questions about meteors, rogue waves and more.See all 20 stories. It’s 1768, and James Cook’s ship Endeavour sails into the ...

Interesting facts: Males weave intricate hanging nests. These birds are omnivorous ... the stunning Golden Pheasant has a long yellow and red crest on its head, a yellow neck, and a red body. Its red ...

A new island has been built at a nature reserve to support a colony of seabirds devastated by bird flu. RSPB Saltholme in Stockton, Teesside, hopes common terns, roseate terns and black-headed gulls ...

An island has been built at RSPB Saltholme in the hope rare seabirds will build nests on it A new island ... in the UK and is on the BTO's red list of vulnerable birds. They breed on Coquet ...

A red-cockaded woodpecker eats a bug outside of its nest in Sam ... back of the male’s head. They’ve captivated scientists because they do something that most other birds don’t: They raise ...