In this edition of Breaking Down the Breed, HPJ Field Editor Lacey Vilhauer covers the Barred Rock, the friendliest chicken.

The rising popularity of songbird singing competitions in Indonesia has led to the dramatic decline of the white-rumped shama ...

Populations of Rüppell’s vultures have fallen by more than 90% over the past four decades. Knowing exactly where these ...

New Zealand's Department of Conservation launched a live stream of a kākāpō nest home to a 24-year-old female, one of 236 ...

Some birds that mimic humans can only say a few words or phrases. For instance, crows in captivity often repeat words like ...

The house sparrow is a highly invasive pest in North Carolina, and bluebird enthusiasts frequently throw their eggs out and remove their nests to keep them from overtaking the nestboxes that bluebirds ...

Years ago, I stood outside the gates of the old Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point plant. The world’s largest steel mill was bleak. Its furnaces were stone cold; its locomotives were immobile; and worst ...

In North America’s spring, a bubbly song burbles up from some grassy meadows, the song of the breeding male bobolink. It is a “bubbling, jangling warble with short notes on widely different pitches; ...

Kakapos, which are reclusive and flightless and can live as long as humans, are found only in New Zealand. They feed on the fruit of the rimu tree.

There continues to be intense debate worldwide about the definition of biological sex, boosted by some recent executive orders. The official theme of LGBTQ+ History Month (February) this year is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bonnie Blue has announced she is pregnant credit:Bang Showbiz Bonnie Blue is pregnant following her recent "breeding mission". The ...

Discover the brain science behind how birds learn to sing, from song nuclei to social cues and critical learning windows.