That some of us still throw the term “bird brain” around as a barb points to poor cognition in our own species, not theirs.

In Alaska during the mid-1990s, bird experts noticed an uptick in overgrown, warped beaks among black-capped chickadees. Now, using high-throughput RNA sequencing, researchers at the University of ...

In the avian world, birds showcase an incredible diversity of beaks—some enormous, others unusually long, and some even lethal. All hornbill species have a unique structure called a casque on ...

Under a microscope each long kingfisher barb, finer than a human hair ... At the river's edge two birds will lock beaks and attempt to force each other underwater. Breeding season requires ...