Most birds don’t bring a box of chocolates or a bouquet of roses when they take up courtship of a prospective mate, but birds have several equivalent behaviors that they employ to attract the ...

Keith Horton (Australia) watches from the nearby shrubbery as a female satin bowerbird visits a male’s bower to inspect ... He combined two images to get both birds in focus. Bowerbirds prefer to ...

A Melbourne tattoo parlour has compared Pam the Bird to Banksy and says people are lining up to “share the movement” with free tattoos of the graffiti vandal’s famous cartoon tag.

One particular species, the satin bower bird, constructs highly ornate bowers—stages where the males show off to the females—decorated with blue items. The more complex the bower, the better ...

One particular species, the satin bower bird, constructs highly ornate bowers – stages where the males show off to the females – decorated with blue items. The more complex the bower ...

For instance, birds often use human-made materials when building nests, implying that some species are intentionally using rubbish to show off to members of the opposite sex. One particular species, ...

A new version of the virus is widespread in wild birds but had not previously been detected in cows. By Emily Anthes and Apoorva Mandavilli Dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a new form ...