Then a camouflaged speaker that scientists had placed nearby started to play. First came a recorded honk from an unpartnered ...

Mammalian scavengers aside, if left to avian scavengers alone, birds on down the pecking order following vultures and eagles and large corvids, will eventually trickle down to include many other ...

Sy Montgomery loves chickens. Not only those she has lived with — the “Ladies,” whose behavior she can detail at length — but ...

Calling wild turkeys in the fall lacks the excitement of hearing thunderous gobbles in response to calls made when hunting ...

Bringing new hens into your flock can be an exciting venture, but it’s important to exercise caution, especially if the birds ...

The flaps mimick a class of feathers that are key to birds' most daring aerial ... No Incentive for Older Birds to Make New Friends Oct. 28, 2024 — Like people, birds have fewer friends as they ...

And when a bird silently nods off on its perch, it may also dream as its singing muscles twitch. Could it be rehearsing in its sleep? A substantial proportion of bird species are songbirds with ...

holding a handful of birds, that were allowed in California until 2015); and rampant, stress-induced pecking, which animal activists often refer to as “cannibalism.” “Pecking order is ...

Naturalist Joseph Banks ignores the viceroy’s order anyway, and at midnight ... the oldest piece in a collection of more than 5000 bird nests. “That nest is a small encapsulation of the ...

Early birds tend to wake up and go to sleep earlier in the day. Night owls tend to wake up and go to bed later. Keep reading to learn more about each chronotype, as well as how to change it.

Bird flu has been found in at least one pig at a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the H5N1 virus in swine in the United States, the U.S. Agriculture Department said Wednesday. The ...

For years the myth that calling fall birds was ineffective was preached ... Turkeys are very territorial and live by a pecking order. Gobblers are always looking for a good fight with a new ...