As you begin to see nests full of baby chicks and fledgling birds hopping around in your backyard, you may wonder: how do birds mate? The answer is actually different from what we’ve come to expect as ...

For jackdaws—black and gray relatives of crows—family comes first, according to a recent study published last month in Nature Communications. Scientists put these cognitively complex birds to the test ...

Loyalty isn’t just a human trait. In the wild and at home, certain animals form unshakable bonds with their partners, families, and even humans. Some stay devoted to one mate for life, others never ...

Wisdom, the 72-year-old albatross residing on an island northwest of Hawai'i, is performing mating dances for potential partners According to a new update from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

To communicate without words, humans use a host of gestures—whether a wave to wish someone goodbye, a thumbs-up to indicate approval or “flipping the bird” to suggest something far less polite. While ...

Pretty much everybody in New Jersey knows the blue jay. Its Latin name is Cyanocitta cristata, said to mean “noisy blue bird with a crest.” That describes it pretty well, except that the breast and ...