Birds

As their name suggests, these small birds provide critical cleaning services to oxen, impala and other animals of the savanna—with a side hustle as rhino guards.

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A statue in Maine made for a vagrant hawk offers one way to honor these fleeting visitors. Flaco fans take note.

For centuries, the Beothuk people relied on seabirds to survive—and likely to find their way to the afterlife.

Life finds a way, from the bats that haunt and hunt in a majestic library to a bird sanctuary in one of the most dangerous places in the world.

A new study shows most people can tune into how chickens are feeling based on their clucks alone.

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A subtle, if temporary, change to one of the world’s biggest websites underscored a modern triumph of paleontology, and how we understand life on Earth.

A new study shows how the birds identify their mates in a sea of black and white.

Renaming birds isn’t new, but this official change could be the start of something larger.

The bird is sometimes considered an omen of death, but in Māori tradition, that's just one part of its story.