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Brood parasitic birds lay their eggs in the nests of others, sparing themselves the expense of rearing their own young. The resulting coevolutionary arms race includes sophisticated defenses by hosts ...

Parenting can be lots of work for a bird: all that flying back and forth transporting grubs and insects to a nest of demanding young. But some birds manage to forgo caring for their chicks — while ...

Pet birds are lively companions and make households much brighter with their tunes. However, they can also be hugely ...

Reed warblers use mobbing as a front line of nest defense against parasitic cuckoos, according to a new report published online on January 29th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. Cuckoos ...

Gastrointestinal parasites are commonly reported in wild birds, but transmission amongst avifauna in zoological settings, and between these captive birds and wild birds in surrounding areas, remains ...

THOUGH the singular habits of the parasitic cow-birds (Molobrus Itonariensis and M. badius) are well known to ornithologists, Mr. L. E. Miller has been able to add still further to the records of ...

If you’re a parasite and want to spread out a little in Amazonia, then you better be cool with riding around in a variety of different birds, a new study found. The Amazon region of South America is ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 5, 2010 – Unlike Hawaii and other island groups, no native bird has gone extinct in the Galapagos Islands, although some are in danger. But University of Utah biologists found ...