One dark blue songbird -- the Purple Martin -- is different. This bird species prefers nesting in cavities like those found ...

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy ... The dark and light blue regions seen on the model constitute the brainstem, which sit toward the back of ...

Contaminated pet hair used to line birds' nests has been killing off songbird chicks in numbers ... Environment this month found that in 103 blue and great tit (songbirds) nests containing ...

Why the deception? A leading theory is that it provides a sort of evolutionary insurance policy for the female bird. By adding some male genes from outside her "family," she's adding some genetic ...

In fact, it’s a songbird, albeit with ... when the song thrush – another bird that sits in solitude at the top of a tree and sings its heart out, but batters snails to bits on a rock – gets away with ...