A new study shows the eye size of birds can reveal broad patterns of their biology and behavior, including where they live, what they eat and how they hunt, providing a potential roadmap for future ...

Bird brains are the size of a nut, or possibly even smaller in some cases. But a plethora of new research shows that despite their small brain size, birds are actually among the most intelligent ...

The brown creeper, a frequent visitor to the bird bath, has a unique way of approaching the bath. It lands beneath the basin on the pedestal holding it up. A small amount of moisture is always present ...

Where do birds live? How do they behave? How vulnerable are they to changes in their habitat? To answer those questions, researchers used to look toward factors such as size or migration patterns. But ...

For most birds, eyes are essential to life on the fly. They inform split-second aerobatic maneuvers amid dense branches and pinpoint distant predators or prey. Yet when studying how birds might adapt ...

ANN ARBOR - North American migratory birds have been getting smaller over the past four decades and the reason appears to be related to climate change, according to findings from a University of ...

Eye size likely plays a role in the contest between avian brood parasites -- birds that lay their eggs in the nests of other species -- and their hosts, who sometimes detect the foreign eggs and eject ...