Articles about 'birds'

New research indicates that a bird’s ability to detect changes in air pressure is the evolutionary remnant of an ancient sense organ found in sharks and sturgeons.

New research explains why female cuckoos have evolved different guises.

In the fifth report of our Egg Cetera series on egg-related research, engineers and zoologists work together to discover the secrets of the eggshell.

In the second of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, zoologist Dr Ben Phalan ventures into a tropical forest to understand the impact of encroaching agriculture.

An innovative dance performance with creative input from Professor Nicky Clayton, a expert on bird cognition, goes on tour this week. The Rambert Dance Company's newest production - Seven for a Secret, Never to be Told - is an exploration of childhood inspired by the age-old nursery rhyme about magpies and informed by science.

Certain types of birds may track army ant swarms using sophisticated memory and the ability to plan for the future.

Newly hatched chicks of African honeyguide birds bite to death their foster siblings to eliminate competition.

Separating land for nature and land for crops may be the best way to meet increased food demand with the least impact on wild species.

Research reveals plumages exhibit less than a third of possible colours birds can see.

New research reveals how biological arms races between cuckoos and host birds can escalate into a competition between the host evolving new, unique egg patterns (or ‘signatures’) and the parasite new forgeries.