Owls hoot and geese honk, but the black Jacobin hummingbird sounds like a cricket. The Brazilian bird's song is so high-pitched that neuroscientist Claudio Mello didn't even realize at first that a ...

Hummingbird Heaven is an up close look at the behavior and beauty of these little birds. Hummingbirds can hover, fly backwards, they can even fly upside down. They are so tiny but their personalities ...

Birds have evolved some very strange features and behaviors in order to woo mates. Birds-of-paradise feathers are a natural vantablack. Bowerbirds build elaborate and colorful nests. And it seems that ...