Imagine standing in a quiet forest and hearing a low, rolling croak echo through the trees. Suddenly, a glossy-black bird ...

On a spring morning in Chatham, N.Y., a quiet walk through Hand Hollow reveals the return of migrating birds, including a ...

In a remarkable new study, crows demonstrated an intuitive grasp of geometry—identifying irregular shapes without training.

In return, they laid more eggs than I could eat. In summer when insects were their chief diet—ants being plentiful, and grasshoppers in August—their yolks took on the color of a sunset and tasted good ...

The blue of its feathers stood out even against the blue of the pre-dawn light. It was a male mountain bluebird, of course, ...

A penguin was blamed for a helicopter crash on Bird Island, a habitat in the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa, when the ...

The pre-dawn is clear, cool and calm when I step outside. In the fading darkness, a barred owl calls from the nearby woods. In the growing light of a new day, I hear songs of a robin and a phoebe, ...

In 2012, Boeckle & Bugnyar proved that ravens could remember objects for ... bird species visiting our backyard feeders, ...

A trail camera captured a rare wildlife moment in Oregon, where a bobcat was recorded making an incredible leap to snag a ...

In his first regular chicken-keeping column for ‘Country Life’, Arthur Parkinson introduces his brood and touches on the ...

It’s a member of the Corvidae family, which means it’s related to the crow and the raven ... and not just to other birds. They’ve been known to attack birds of prey and humans that get too close to ...

Bird nests use long, stiff rods that interlock through friction and shape. Vibration strengthens the structure.