Male Japanese quails produce a strange seminal foam that appears to enhance the chances of successfully fertilizing an egg.

The bird kingdom is filled with intriguing mysteries, from the oldest birds that defy ageing myths to birds who have an ...

Female hummingbirds tending to a nest full of eggs or chicks are working their tail feathers. They're either warming their ...

Vampire finches have lived on Darwin Island and Wolf Island (both part of the Galapagos Islands - Ecuador) since 500,000 ...

The largest commercial egg producers own millions of birds. A single laying house holds as many as 350,000, serried into wire crates and stacked on top of one another. The virus spreads rapidly in ...

Birds may decorate nests with artificial objects and feathers to deter magpies and ravens from taking their eggs. Many birds have been observed placing human-made objects in their nests, such as ...

Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the chicks somehow manage to find their flock and ...

The oldest known wild bird in the world has laid an egg at the ripe age of about 74, her first in four years, U.S. wildlife officials said. The long-winged seabird named Wisdom, a Laysan albatross,… ...

Bird flu outbreaks are driving up egg prices and affecting availability. ... Judy Simon noticed something strange during her Thursday evening grocery trip in Redmond.