An ancient forest in Ecuador is the last stand for a tiny hummingbird facing extinction

YANACOCHA RESERVE, Ecuador (AP) — Deep in the Ecuadorian Andes, an ancient forest stands as a final sanctuary against the ...
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10 Fun Facts About the Dark-eyed Junco

But where you live determines more than just whether you see juncos year-round or seasonally; it also determines what type of ...

How to set up a bird feeder to attract your favorite species

For instance, researchers use the backyard sightings that users submit to Project FeederWatch —a joint program run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Birds Canada —to track long-term changes in ...

How Dave the Peacock became a village icon (and an AI Meme Star)

Dave spent the last six weeks on a grand tour of the neighbouring countryside, eventually settling into a residency in the ...

Nature’s Super Feather

A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude, from the nanoscale to the meter ...

It's breeding season for the world's heaviest parrot

New Zealand's endangered kakapo has a unique breeding cycle. Now, for the first time in four years, the parrots are in the ...

A Biologist Explains How Prehistoric ‘Terror Birds’ Earned Their Name

Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...