Wellington City Council urban ecology manager Daniela Biaggio said the survey also showed the capital was "a vital refuge" to ...

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Have you ever locked eyes with a curious kitten or watched a hamster stuff its cheeks with glee? The world of small pets is ...

But even the fiercest groups of birds have diminutive members, little wide-eyed eaters of insects and small rodents like the 4-ounce American kestrels and saw-whet owls.

The small birds rejoice in the green leaves returning, The murmuring streamlet winds clear thro' the vale; The primroses blow in the dews of the morning, And wild-scattered cowslips bedeck the ...

AMSTERDAM, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The Dutch government on Wednesday ordered poultry farmers to confine their birds to contain the spread of a highly infectious strain of bird flu.

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

These Small Birds Flutter Their Wings to Say ‘After You’ to Their Partner A new study of Japanese tits provides the first evidence of non-primate animals using gestures to convey messages.

Researchers have been eavesdropping on an unusual family of crows in Spain, collecting data on hundreds of thousands of different sounds the birds made. Small microphones recorded a variety of ...

How conservationists are helping make buildings bird friendly 02:26. In the U.S., the ubiquity of glass structures and light has created death traps for birds across the country.

Scientists used to think birds were split into two groups: those that learn or imitate sounds, and those that can't. But a tiny wren from Aotearoa New Zealand bridges the two.