There are thousands of species of birds, and many of their names are well-known to us—blue jay, robin, and mallard, to name ...

Unlike birds whose plumage is mostly blue, the green coloring of a green bird‘s feathers is the result of pigment, not a ...

Birds, more than other animal groups, have had a horrific time with extinction, especially over the past several hundred ...

Typically, the name “crow” refers to several bird species in the Corvidae family that share common characteristics, such as ...

They are insect eaters and their long thin, slightly curved beak ... The Dunnock is a small brown bird with a short thin beak. It has red or brown eyes, dark streaks on a brown back and dark ...

While many birds have basic brown ... in small flocks, often heard before seen due to their frog-like calls. The Black Skimmer has one of the most unique beaks in the bird world which are long ...

On April 19, the 46-year-old set off on foot from Pateley Bridge, a small town in ... mottled brown birds with long legs and distinctive downward-curving beaks, which they use like tweezers ...

Fujianvenator is far from similar to any modern birds.” A remarkable event in dinosaur evolution came when small ... bird with teeth, a long bony tail and no beak whose fossils were first ...

This is a species of bird, related to woodpeckers ... sides of its tail and is about 20 cm long. The male has a black throat, pink bill, dark grayish brown upperparts, and white underparts ...

The size and shape of a bird’s beak usually give a person an idea of what it eats and how it catches what it eats. Birds such as cardinals have strong, conical bills that crack open nuts and seeds.

Birds have long been considered sentinels for environmental ... Sparrows have a home range similar to the size of a small urban neighbourhood. Most pollutants they pick up are from within this ...

When driving along South Carolina’s coastal waterways, wetlands and estuaries, you may find yourself spotting a small, strange-looking bird with a long, curved beak. Those little birds are white ...