Because their feet are not adapted to process prey items, shrikes carry large items to thorny vegetation and/or barbed wire fences and promptly impale the prey upon a thorn or barb. This behavior ...

Conservationists went to dramatic lengths to save the birds, including pumping boiling hot water into the ground to ward off fire ants. Florida grasshopper sparrow chicks peer up out of their ground ...

Intro; Abstract; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: How to Study Predator Recognition; 1.1 Observation in the Wild; 1.2 Experiments; 1.2.1 Experiments on Nests; 1.2.2 Experiments on Winter Feeders ...

Birds in mixed flocks face a trade-off: safety in numbers vs increased risk as a lone individual. New research confirms lone ...