Since 2022, H5N1 has been infecting chickens, cows, wild birds and cats — among several other animals. With a record number of human cases in the U.S., the situation is getting increasingly ...

Budgerigars perched in a tree. Credit: Sean Kelleher / CC BY-SA 2.0 Budgerigars, small and colorful parrots, are known for their ability to mimic human speech. Scientists have now discovered that ...

Come March and something very special is happening in our hedgerows. In parks and gardens across the UK, birds are preparing to welcome in the next generation by building nests. March to September ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Parrots are so adept at mimicking people that the avian moniker has become synonymous with repetition. Yet for as long as we’ve ...

While bird feeders are common in Britain's gardens, bird baths are less so. Bird baths are a brilliant way of providing birds with a regular supply of clean water for both drinking and bathing. Bird ...

Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...

One group of species that's especially interesting is birds. They're distant relatives compared to other animals with interesting vocal capabilities, like whales and elephants, and their brains ...

The ongoing spread of the highly pathogenic bird flu worldwide is reaching an “unprecedented” scale, a United Nations agency warned Monday. Speaking at a conference in Rome, key members of the ...

When it comes to speech, parrots have the gift of gab. And the way the brains of small parrots known as budgerigars bestow this gift is remarkably similar to human speech, researchers report March ...

Neural recordings from parrots and songbirds reveal the ways in which vocal production is encoded in the brain, highlighting remarkable similarities between how parrots and humans learn to produce ...

"Bilbies, kowaris — which are these little marsupial mice — and the night parrot, which is pretty elusive," Desert Channels Queensland program manager Geoff Penton said. The conservation group ...