Birds

The kākāpō is the world’s only flightless parrot. It’s come back from the brink of extinction, but its future in New Zealand depends on creating habitat without invasive predators.  Yang …

A new study finds that light pollution makes birds’ days last longer. Rasit Aydogan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Rasit Aydogan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The early …

Urban birds stay up significantly later than their rural counterparts, according to research that highlights the impact of light pollution on wildlife. The study, based on recordings submitted by bird …

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. H5N1 bird flu has been making a lot of headlines since last year, and for good reason: since March 2024 …

An oriental magpie-robin perches on a tree branch in Bangkok in 2022. The bird was among the species that researchers studied in a rainforest in India. Jack Taylor/AFP via Getty …

Prairie dogs bark to alert each other to the presence of predators, with different cries depending on whether the threat is airborne or approaching by land. But their warnings also …

It is a tactic worthy of Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt: wait until a beeping pedestrian crossing indicates a traffic queue has formed then use the line of cars as cover …

Providing every new home with at least one “swift brick” to help endangered cavity-nesting birds has been rejected by Labour at the committee stage of its increasingly controversial planning bill. …