As they report in Ecology and Evolution, their camera captured footage of a praying mantis killing a nestling and eating from it. Praying mantises are known for their aggression, but even so ...

Such behavior is generally not known to occur among cowbirds. A Brown-headed Cowbird nestling (R) in the nest with a same-aged Indigo Bunting nestling (L). The video below depicts a 6-day-old ...

Nestling birds struggle in noisy environments Date: October 29, 2014 Source: Acoustical Society of America Summary: Unable to fly, nestling birds depend on their parents for both food and ...

Experiments conducted on nestling pied flycatchers across Europe demonstrate that they preferentially respond to songs from their own species and, remarkably, their own population. Like human ...

Australian Platypus Conservancy biologist Melody Serena said, in an ideal world, the universally accepted term for a young platypus that was still confined to the burrow would be a "nestling".

James T. Tanner's photographs of the ivory-billed woodpecker with guide J.J. Kuhn were believed to be the only pictures of a living nestling. James T. Tanner The ivory-billed woodpecker is one of ...