When a Bird Becomes Family Imagine coming home after a long, exhausting day. As you open the door, a cheerful voice greets ...

Superb starlings help care for the offspring of birds they are not related to. “To me, that sounds like friendship,” one ...

Over the next few days, six of the eight eggs yielded tiny, chirping hatchlings — spurring dad and both moms to hunt for food ...

A superb starling flock includes birds that are born into the group as well as “immigrants ... many also reciprocally helped non-relatives, even when their family members could have pitched in instead ...