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Some birds can only mimic a few words, while others can convey whole sentences. This list will include the top 10 most talented talking birds in the entire animal kingdom.
The birds learn quickly to imitate everything around them and are almost constantly whistling, singing, or talking. They seem to take great pride in their accomplishments.
New research finds that “tit divorce” is less arbitrary than biologists thought, revealing a complex social side to these ...
The North American bird population has dropped nearly 3 billion birds, or 30%, since 1970, according to a study by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
But even the fiercest groups of birds have diminutive members, little wide-eyed eaters of insects and small rodents like the 4-ounce American kestrels and saw-whet owls.
Conservationists are shining a light on small changes that can have a major, life-saving impact. Each morning, Lisbeth Fuisz walks the streets of Washington, D.C., looking for birds.
Tropical birds, from kingfishers to wrens to warblers, are showing signs of mercury contamination as artisanal and small-scale gold mining operations reach deeper into jungles, new research finds.