Birds can be much more than just beautiful creatures in a cage. For many pet lovers, birds become cherished companions responsive, affectionate, and even playful. While not all birds crave human ...

I was hosing bird droppings—a staggeringly copious amount of them—off my front stoop when I saw one author of the mess parked on a powerline above my house. In rapid succession, pitch-perfect ...

We all know the early bird gets the worm, so why do these young endangered grassland songbirds hang out in their nests late into the day? A new study seeks to answer that question, and it could be ...

Atop those telephone and power lines our feathered friends love to perch. Sometimes we see just a couple, other times flocks upon flocks gather. It kind of reminds us of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 horror ...

New research by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago uses the mating songs of birds to show how intrinsic properties of cells are closely tied to the complex processes of learning. The study, ...

Exactly 100 years ago Saturday, the U.S. government passed a groundbreaking law to protect migratory birds that fly across the Atlantic. To mark the anniversary, National Geographic magazine helped ...

Like so many love stories, this one started when opposites were attracted to each other. Maura Hennelly noticed her pet lovebird, Kiwi, was lonely, so she bought him a girlfriend named Siouxsie. The ...