There’s been some interesting bird research lately, having to do with the origin of birds (new analysis of new and old fossils) and the...

Many years ago, back in the 1970s, I visited my sister, who lived in West Yellowstone, Montana, in the dead of winter. We rented...

Parrots are smarter than Nebo the dog “Nebo.” The dog’s name came from the direction of the enclosed front porch of the tin-roofed concrete...

Nobody knows and I’m not going to pretend to tell you. However, in this post, I’d like to lay out the basic numbers as...

There is a fantastic paper just out in Science: “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea...

The ranger stood on the dirt road, facing south, and the rest of us, scattered about the parked safari truck, facing north and paying...

I have a larger post coming out next week as part of a special 10,000 Birds topical extravaganza, so for now just three little...

It has been discovered that largosity and flightlessness, which perhaps fortunately tend to go together in birds, evolved more than once. The original story...