Young, naïve starlings are looking for their wintering grounds independently of experienced conspecifics. Starlings are highly social birds throughout the year, but this does not mean that they copy ...

In an impressive feat of rapid urban adaptation, sulphur-crested cockatoos have worked out how to use their feet and their large bodies to twist the tap handles of drinking fountains in order to ...

Total solar eclipses only happen in the same spot once every 300 or 400 years, so it’s no surprise that a team of researchers at Indiana University jumped on the opportunity to use this natural ...

Aguilar, who specializes in bird behavior, set out in summer 2023 to find a system to gather large volumes of data on the eclipse’s effects on local birds’ daily routines. With the help of Luddy ...

As fall migration winds down, there are many ways to track where birds are going for the winter. One of the newer methods being used in Wisconsin is called the Motus Wildlife Tracking System. It’s an ...

When it comes to the smartest bird, we humans still have a lot to learn. Bird intelligence comes in many forms, and scientists are finding that many species exhibit intelligence similar to that of ...

A community science initiative along the West Coast is using volunteer observations to study the effect of wildfire smoke on birds. Last summer, Carrie Brown-Kornarens spent 10 minutes every week ...

Amanda Tokuyama (left), the GIS & Field Data Manager for the Urban Ecology Center, shows the young campers where the band will go on the Gray catbird's leg, while Brittany Peters (right), community ...

My first lesson from birds took place in Yellowstone. I was sitting alone in the forest, just watching. It may have been a half an hour before I really "saw" what I was seeing. Two birds were pecking ...