This article was originally published with the title “The Double Fovea in Birds of Prey, Restoring Stained Glass Windows” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 122 No. 7 (February 1920), p. 171 ...

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More than 200 birds from 23 species were given different cognitive tests to gauge their intelligence. One of the problem-solving tasks asked birds to pull a cork lid off a glass flask to access a ...

These birds need to wash their mouths out with soap. A wildlife park in the UK conspired a new plan to stop their potty-mouthed parrots from cursing, telling zoo visitors to “f—k off.” ...

For decades, a dominant theory about why birds sing at dawn — called the "dawn chorus" — has been that they can be heard farther and more clearly at that time.