Figuring out how woodpeckers avoid brain damage has inspired humans working in fields like crash safety and helmet design.

DEAR JOAN: Recently my wife alerted me that a strange bird was at the hummingbird feeder. We have had orioles feeding there before and she thought it might be one, but there appeared to be two ...

Once again, I found myself sitting outside in my small photo blind trying to capture a handful of images of birds in a winter/snowy setting. The temperatures were a balmy 5 below zero and I was ...

In 2015, Harold Greeney trained his camera on a mourning dove nest stitched into the crook of a cactus. As an ornithologist, Greeney studies the love lives of birds—cooperative breeding in nightingale ...

A woodpecker’s tongue can reach one-third of its body length. This long tongue wraps around the bird’s skull, acting as a built-in helmet to absorb and redistribute forceful impacts. Different ...

If you have heard a woodpecker pecking away at your gutter or home this fall, it may not mean you have insects in your wood. Connecticut is home to seven species of woodpeckers that live in forests, ...

A flash of red on the trunk of a tulip poplar just outside my office window in Decatur the other morning was from a yellow-bellied sapsucker — a confirmation that the bird has arrived from up north to ...

How do animals produce and perceive biological information in sounds? To what extent does the acoustic structure and its associated meaning change during evolution? An international team has ...