In late June and early July, groups of yellow-crowned night herons will begin to leave their New Orleans nests. First they ...

Bird watchers have flocked to the Conception Bay North community of North River to see a bird rarely spotted in Newfoundland ...

As spring moves towards summer and temperatures start to rise, native insects begin to take flight. Perhaps none are as ...

When it comes to African wildlife, few things capture the imagination like the Big Five animals. I still remember the first ...

This impressive balance and speed showcase physical fitness and compatibility, essential for successful mating. Blue footed booby ... This collective display increases the chances of individual birds ...

In birds, “mating rituals” include two very different categories ... Males start off displaying in flocks and later may spread out over a large area, so females have to wander some distance to compare ...

Birds that mate for life gain several evolutionary advantages that increase reproductive success ... The black vulture (Coragyps atratus) is a large bird of prey. The Pitch Lake (La Brea, Trinidad) is ...

Beginning with indigo buntings and red-winged blackbirds, ornithologists began scrutinizing the paternity of bird clutches and, one-by-one, the results came back like an episode of the “Maury” show: ...

Birds, Sex & Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications ... keen to catch the peculiar pre-dawn mating rituals of the black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix). Males congregate for weeks on end on an ...

Abstract: The bird mating optimizer is a new metaheuristic algorithm that was originally proposed to solve continuous optimization problems with a very promising performance. However, the algorithm ...

Sometimes bigger is better. Three big birds here now, two to stay the winter, surely guarantee big birding pleasure. After all, birds standing four feet tall (or even a foot tall) and weighing ten ...

The glow factor of birds of paradise is apparently important for mating displays. Despite biofluorescence being especially prominent in males, attracting a mate might not be all it is useful for ...