birds

Birds across Eastern England's arable landscapes are thriving on solar farms managed with nature in mind.

A ‘one of a kind’ fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the...

Researchers have discovered that seabirds, including penguins and albatrosses, have highly-sensitive regions in their beaks that could be used to help...

Blue and great tits recall what they have eaten in the past, where they found the food and when they found it, a new study shows. In the first...

Fossil bones from two newly-described penguin species, one of them thought to be the largest penguin to ever live – weighing more than 150 kilograms...

Fossilised fragments of a skeleton, hidden within a rock the size of a grapefruit, have helped upend one of the longest-standing assumptions about the...

New study uses data on lead levels in the livers of thousands of dead raptors to calculate the impact of lead poisoning on population size.

The oldest fossil of a modern bird yet found, dating from the age of dinosaurs, has been identified by an international team of palaeontologists.