Plant a Pollinator Garden To Support Butterflies, Bees, & Birds
It’s seed-ordering season. As you browse this year’s catalog, plan to help butterflies, bees, and…
Tag: birds
Dinosaurs like Diplodocus may have been as colourful as birds
Illustration of a sauropod, with inset showing pigmented structures in the skin as seen with…
We may finally know why birds sing at dawn
Zebra finches are commonly studied in captivity by biologistsAlamy The dawn chorus of birdsong has…
Birds Went Silent during the Great North American Eclipse—Here’s What Researchers Discovered
When a total solar eclipse plunged North America into darkness on the afternoon of April…
Guest Idea: How To Help Birds Navigate The Human World
You might hear birds singing on some mornings, just bits of sound between car horns…
Ancient ‘terror birds’ may have been no match for hungry giant caimans
Artist’s impression of an encounter between an ancient caiman and a terror birdJulian Bayona Becerra…
How H5N1 Went from an Illness in Wild Birds to a Global Pandemic Threat
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.H5N1 bird flu has been making…
First evidence of ancient birds nesting above the Arctic circle
Illustration of ancient birds nesting above the Arctic circleGabriel Ugueto Newly discovered bone fragments from…
Why birds decorate their nests with weird and unnatural objects
Red kites sometimes put plastic objects in their nestsMike Read / Alamy Stock Photo Birds…
Migrating Birds Sing to Team Up with Other Species
January 15, 20253 min readMigrating Birds Sing to Team Up with Other SpeciesSongbirds may socialize…