The shapes we see in starling murmurations are an example of “emergent behaviour” ... from relatively simple underlying rules’ ...
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Grow More Native Plants for Birds
Why Birds Need Native Plants Native plants for birds are like Mom’s home cooking. They’re the tried-and-true foods that keep ...
Meet the kakapo—a chunky, moss-green parrot that looks like it waddled out of a fantasy novel and forgot how to fly. This New ...
NASA scientists are using airborne technology to track flowers from above, offering new insights into seasonal plant cycles.
In his home office in Durham, Duke neuroscientist Richard Mooney shows a series of images of a bird's brain on song. In one, ...
How many chickens roam the city? And who looks out for them? We dive into the origin of these feisty fowl, and how they came ...
For many Virginians, this is gardening season, and experts are warning Virginians not to plant a bush popular with ...
When we moved to a small town several years ago, I was delighted to find that families of ducks and geese lived on the local pond and that a mom-and-pop shop across the street sold little paper bags ...
A new study tracks down where native iguanas in Fiji and an extinct species from Tonga came from, offering clues about the ...
In her watercolor triptych, Rosalie Haizlett celebrates the vibrant colors and details found in the feathers of common—and ...
In the fall, after the plovers migrate to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in the United States, monitors help prepare the ...
Right now, in March, Tundra Swans are beginning to journey north toward their breeding grounds in the arctic region of North America. There, they nest on marshy tundra lakes (and yes, it's their ...