Do you know what a plover is? Take this quiz to find out!
Learn about a little bird called the grey wagtail and the school kids who celebrate its yearly visits.
On this episode of Candid Animal Cam, we meet a bird from Southeast Asia named after Argus, a mythological Greek giant with many eyes: Learn more https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/what-does-a-great-argus-pheasant-sound-like-candid-animal-cam-listens-to-birds
By Kayla Harren. From Nature's Giants magazine, courtesy of Wild Nature Institute. Download
A group of scientists from England and Hungary wanted to find proof that tropical birds really are more colorful than their temperate cousins. To do this, they used special imaging technology…
Take this quiz and learn about pigeons! 1. True or False? Pigeons and doves are completely different groups of birds. False! From an evolutionary perspective pigeons and doves are all part of the same group, the bird family Columbidae. There are about 300 species in this group. Which birds…
What vultures eat and how they eat it may be gross to humans, but it helps make the world that we live in much cleaner and safer than it would be otherwise.
True or False? All penguins live in Antarctica…
Alex Coburn reports on the melodious dawn chorus from the Greater Kruger region of South Africa.
Príncipe is an island approximately 250 kilometers (155 miles) off the coast of Central Africa. Along with its neighboring island, São Tomé, it has several endemic species, or species found nowhere else on Earth. One of these endemic species is the Príncipe thrush. Until 2010, the…
Meet a ratite you may not know, the great tinamou.
Learn about the 5 types of vertebrate animals with this Halloween activity for classroom or home.