Sexing the birds – Can you always tell the difference?
Why are some birds the same colour for both sexes, and some aren’t? Female eagles are bigger than their partners, and some species have only…
Bird Buddy Blog
Baby birds on the ground – when and how to help
Breeding season is in full swing and many birds will be raising their chicks somewhere out there. You may come across a small, seemingly helpless…
Do birds fall in love?
Often depicted as circling round the heads of lovestruck protagonists in cartoons or film, birds have been associated with the concept of love throughout history….
Four awesome facts about nocturnal birds
It is Stay Up All Night Night tonight and we are honoring it by looking at nocturnal birds and four awesome facts that make them…
Mimic birds make the best lovers – why birds impersonate other birds
It’s hard enough to learn the songs and calls of individual bird species as it is, without some of them going around impersonating one another….
Bird brains are far from stupid. Feathered geniuses continue to surprise science
That some birds seem “clever” has been noted for many years – talking parrots, tool-wielding crows, memory-storming jays. But what does clever mean? How can…
Dinosaur birds or members of a different family? The disputed origins of birds
Terrifying T-Rexes and violent Velociraptors – distant cousins of the chickadee, the heron, and the kiwi, apparently. Debate surrounds where birds came from and with…
How do birds mate?
Courtship between birds is elaborate, intense, takes a long time, and can be exhausting. Not so with sex. Hop on, hop off, and that’s the…
Plumage colours – green
The colour green can symbolise nature, inexperience, jealousy, and according to one holy book, immortality. But in the bird world it can help birds merge…
What have the birds ever done for us?
A world without birds would be very strange. For a start, it probably wouldn’t last very long, at least not in the way we know…