A new analysis of the bones in the eatery’s garbage pit challenges the elite status of thrush in the Roman diet ...

Keeping songbirds is a source of joy and pride for hundreds of thousands of Indonesians, but the tradition is also wreaking ...

The Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (UIB-CSIC) reports that thrush bones discarded in a Roman cesspit at ...

Mallards might be best known for their green heads, seen in the males. Brezinski says, what you might not know is, that green ...

Memory is a marker of intelligence. Of all animals, humans possess the most accurate and sophisticated memory. But elephants can recognize as many as 30 traveling companions at a time. They also learn ...

There are thousands of species of birds, and many of their names are well-known to us—blue jay, robin, and mallard, to name ...

A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.

The University of Michigan community has two new members after a family of peregrine falcons hatched two eggs in the school’s ...

Peregrine falcon chicks that hatched in May at the University of Michigan campus now have their official names.

Spending time in nature is important for your mental health. But studies show that even just listening to birds singing can ease symptoms of anxiety and depression. A European robin, Erithacus ...