Hummingbirds are tiny, beautiful birds that take delicate sips from flowers. That’s a common image of hummingbirds, anyway, but there’s much more to their behavior than that. These birds...

A yellow beak on dark plumage is proof that a bird doesn't need rainbow-colored feathers to be attractive.  Whether you want to learn more about the worldwide avifauna, or find out what black...

Webbed feet are adaptations made by many birds to help them swim faster – it’s especially common with aquatic birds, as well as many reptiles and mammals. In today’s article, we’ll be...

Woodpeckers are hardy birds with little need to migrate. They have powerful beaks to forage for food even in the winter. They’re also happy in many different climates. Still, there are a lot of...

Blackbird is an umbrella term with different meanings in the New and Old World.  In the Old World, this term refers to the Eurasian blackbird or Turdus merula, a “true” thrush species....

Scavenging birds are bird species that mostly or exclusively feed on dead organisms they find in the wild. These birds are extremely important in the ecosystem as they speed up the process of...