Bird Navigation is an amazing, mysterious thing. For years, birds have outsmarted scientists over this issue, mainly I think because people looking into navigation...

Many, many things happened in the area of bird science this year, so this review can not be comprehensive. But I’ve compiled a sampling...

If you need to capture a bird for study or rehabbing, there are a number of tools at your disposal. You can use garden-variety...

I teach human evolution, and at some point I use a chart showing reversals in the Earth’s magnetic field, which in turn relates to...

It is hard to think of too many downsides to birds, but there are some and here I’d like to mention one that we...

Back in the 1980s, it became popular for biologists to consider plant secondary compounds in understanding inter-species relationships and other ecological matters. I was...

We know that the human mind has capacities that are not common in other animals. Some of these capacities seem to be linked with...

or, in this case, a neophobic Blue Tit in a cage is also a neophobic Blue Tit in the wild. Now this, might not...