In our complete guide to bird lifecycles, we lead you from nesting and hatching all the way back to the mating season.

Experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman write, “These are the egg cases, called oothecae, of a praying mantis. Produced by the ...

Cuckoos sneak their eggs into other birds’ nests and copy egg colors to avoid detection. This study explains how they adjust to many hosts.

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Female snakes can produce their offspring in several different ways. Many people assume that all snakes lay eggs, but the ...

For some social birds, raising their young or finding food is a group effort. Learn more about cooperative bird behavior.

Adult male Sparrowhawks have a bluish-grey back and wings and orangey-brown stripes on their chest and belly. Females and young birds have brown back and wings, and brown stripes underneath.

A pioneering farm in Brazil has become the first in Latin America to adopt and implement groundbreaking German-developed ...

Vipers and cobras, though both venomous, possess distinct traits. Vipers, with their heavy bodies and hinged fangs, excel at ...

Doll's small farm west of Detroit had no cases of bird flu, despite an ongoing outbreak that killed more than 2 million U.S.

"Crows, ravens, magpies, and eagles follow the scent, and so do foxes, badgers, and other creatures," he says. Small animals ...