Having birds visit your yard is a delight. You watch them fly around, fluff their feathers, and engage in everyday routines like feeding and bathing, and it gives you a wonderful feeling of being ...
If you don’t have your own backyard flock, you may not believe that the chicken pecking order is real, let alone that it’s even more complicated than we give it credit for. Chickens are one of ...
Gentle pecking of feathers where the recipient is calm and not reacting is a normal social behaviour of birds and should never worry anyone. But in situations where the pecking is more violent, and ...
If crows, magpies, rooks, or starlings have started working over your lawn at dawn, jabbing their beaks into the turf and ...
A woodpecker's brain takes a big hit with every peck against a tree. Yet the animals don't get brain damage. A team of scientists says the reason is the brain's very small size. A woodpecker's brain ...