The nocturnal mating rituals of hairy scarab beetles are helping pollinate one of Perth's most common native trees, in a ...

Researchers from the University of Exeter say bowerbirds in Australian cities are using human items to impress their mates.

According to a new paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science by University of Exeter scientists, urbanization ...

A new study shows that urban male bowerbirds are ditching otherwise natural decorations and turning to human trash to woo ...

How do you get people excited about birds? Apparently the answer hasn't changed all that much in more than a century.

Our study found that masturbation is widespread across birds with a strong evolutionary history, meaning that it’s an ancient ...

Blue-Footed Boobies are super interesting birds. Their mating dance is awesome, as you saw, and they're precious. They take ...

Some birds sing to attract a mate. Others dance or display colorful feathers. But in the moonlit forests and shrublands of northern Argentina, one bird courts romance by snapping its wrists together, ...

Here’s the way we’re used to thinking about bird breeding in North America: As our days get longer and temperatures rise, neotropical migrants arrive to produce and raise chicks alongside our resident ...

Bruce the kea—a species of alpine parrot native to New Zealand—lost his upper beak in an accident as a young bird. But that hasn’t stopped him from becoming the dominant male in his kea community ...

Birds are paragons of a natural phenomenon that we see every spring. In many species, males become more colorful, displaying brighter, more eye-catching plumage for a single purpose: to attract ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Minutes after getting to a park in the middle of Phoenix, you can see flashes of green in the sky and hear chatter because love is in the air — or at least, the lovebirds are. The small ...