If you enjoy watching your feathered friends year-round, there are multiple benefits to having a bird feeder in your yard. Almost any kind of seed mix will work to attract birds if you don't care ...

Their thick legs and big feet are adapted to regular walking, and suited for shallow digging to forage for seeds, roots, and insects. Some gallinaceous birds, like the turkey, sport ostentatious ...

The problem with millet is that it often gets scattered onto the ground, where it can become moldy or attract rodents and ...

This can involve chopping the seed into smaller pieces (known as kibbling), flaking or heating the seed. Find out if these treatments actually work in our results table below. If you'd like to try ...

Featuring birds like Wisdom, a Laysan albatross still laying eggs at nearly 70, and Cocky Bennett, a cockatoo reaching 120, this article highlights nine of the world’s oldest birds. It showcases ...

Some birds show quite astonishing powers of recall. The Clarke’s nutcracker, a type of North American crow, may have the animal world's keenest memory. It collects up to 30,000 pine seeds over ...

A new seed treatment designed to keep birds away from freshly planted fields has received regulatory approval. Arkion life Science LLC. recently gained approval for its Avipel bird repellent from ...

No Incentive for Older Birds to Make New Friends Oct. 28, 2024 — Like people, birds have fewer friends as they age, but the reasons why are unclear. New research suggests they may just have no drive ...

Our homemade fat ball bird feeder is fun and easy to make with kids. Fat balls make excellent winter food for birds. With this pine cone design, you won't need a separate fat ball holder. Keep watch ...

Newly Discovered Late Cretaceous Birds May Have Carried Heavy Prey Like Extant Raptors Oct. 9, 2024 — Newly discovered birds from Late Cretaceous North America were hawk-sized and had powerful ...

“How do you get a bird like a godwit that can fly over the entire Pacific Ocean?” said Christopher Guglielmo, a biologist at Western University in Ontario who studies the physiology of bird ...