Besides being home to rare animals like sitatunga, a wetland-dwelling antelope, it serves as a fish breeding ground and a habitat for rare bird species ... endemics and cichlid species, and ...

A new report suggests that more Americans may be walking around with bird flu − and not even know it. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention randomly tested 150 ...

Researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna are reporting that Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana) engage in food flavoring behavior by dunking food into soy yogurt.

Cockatoos are not only gorgeous and highly intelligent birds, but they can also be completely unhinged and absolutely wild. Just ask the mom of a Cockatoo named Preston, who woke up and decided to ...

Writing in Current Biology, Parker et al. describe experiments in shell-dwelling cichlid fish (Lamprologus ocellatus) that challenge this conventional view (A. V. Parker et al. Curr. Biol.

After all, these winged companions can be super-loving. Just feast your eyes on this gorgeous white cockatoo and all the precious snuggles this sweet avian baby gives to their beloved mom.

From worries about food safety to egg prices, Americans have questions about the bird flu. This strain of bird flu, also known as H5N1, is not entirely new. It's been detected in a variety of bird ...

Cockatoos season their food by dunking it in soya yogurt, preferably blueberry-flavoured, experiments suggest 1. In 2022, Jeroen Zewald and Alice Auerpserg at the University of Veterinary Medicine ...

Cockatoos are real problem solvers, and sometimes their problem is that their food is too bland. A new study by cognitive biologists has found that some cockatoos will solve that problem the ...

Well, it turns out this kind of behavior doesn’t seem to be exclusive to humans – a new study has found some Goffin’s cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana) love a condiment too. The idea for the ...

Cockatoo Island is an interesting and history-rich UNESCO World Heritage Site, located in the heart of Sydney harbour at the junction of the Parramatta River and Lane Cove River. The island is ...

The Great Backyard Bird Count is back. Between Feb. 14 and 17, the event invites nature enthusiasts around the world to watch and count as many birds as they can in their “favorite places.” ...