eight-legged creatures hitch rides on the beaks of hummingbirds, taking shelter in the birds’ nostrils during flight. When a speedy hummingbird arrives at a flower to drink nectar, mites run ...

A flock of cartoonish-looking bluebirds was set out on our dining room table. When family visited someone said, "What's up with the blue penguins?" ...

Around the room, more symbols of hope, faith and love. Bright flowers pressed between beveled glass, its giver gone now, her ...

And what influences a bird’s vocal range, and the kinds of sounds it can make? Beak size? Body size ... FLORA LICHTMAN: Well, I wish you luck, and I hope to get to hear Madagascar sometime. Zuzana, ...

For centuries, Mute Swans have been a quintessential symbol of love and devotion and it’s not hard to see why. Each spring, ...

When this spiral rotates to create the illusion that the bird is moving forward, the bird shifts into “reverse gear”—and its beak slips out ... sugary fuel from the flowers, his wings ...

Scientists also declared several other extinctions, including the first documented plant extinction in New Hampshire.

And carrying a bowl of dhup incense, trembling with anticipation, he would at once begin to chant Sanskrit mantras and dash through the dusky corridors to meet the bird. After watching it for a while ...

Each species has a uniquely shaped beak suited to its diet ... Other species have long snouts to help them drink nectar from flowers. How did this diversity evolve so quickly? What had to change in ...

There are four of us in the Murchison Mountains, walking slowly uphill through a boulderfield smothered in alpine flowers and shrubs ... Every now and then they stop to twitch a bird caller, a cunning ...

And the world's smallest bird will soon begin its annual ... shaped for the hummingbirds' long beaks. It's said that sometimes, should you wear red, they may or may not check you out and see if you're ...