"Why do chickens cluck?," asked a young patron at the Vernon Area Library's Science Explorers. The library is in Lincolnshire. Booms, cackles, whines and whoops are sweet bird calls from male prairie ...

The oldest known vocal organ of a bird has been found in an Antarctic fossil of a relative of ducks and geese that lived more than 66 million years ago during the age of dinosaurs. The oldest known ...

I have written about birds pecking or fluttering at windows and car mirrors before. It is not uncommon for some local bird species to fight their own likeness in reflective surfaces. Usually the ...