Bird poop: not a topic most people take interest in. However, fascinating discoveries are being made from the feces of one slowly disappearing bird in the U.K. Researchers are analyzing pied ...

Birds. Some are sacred. Some are deadly. Some are delicious. They can fly, float, swim and sing. Science suggests these magnificent creatures descended from dinosaurs. But when their droppings descend ...

Mercury levels in layers of ancient bird poo have given scientists the key to understanding how the population has changed ...

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First come the horseshoe crabs. Hoisting their round, tank-like shells, they trundle out of the Delaware Bay under the first full moon in May to mate and lay their eggs. The birds soon follow.

Population of birds in paintings at the Mauritshuis, from Anne Geene and Arjan de Nooy’s ‘Ornithology’ (all photos of the book by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) (click to enlarge ...

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