These large, flightless birds have powerful, muscular legs and tough, prehistoric-looking feet with claws that can deliver a ...

Love, who is a birder, was familiar with the behavior and found the display “amusing,” but something stood out: After each ...

which can put them 70 to 100 feet off the ground in a relatively mature forest. It is from this sort of position that a great crested flycatcher will engage in a hunting strategy called “hawking.” ...

Let’s be honest, lots of male birds turn out to be deadbeat dads ... The male Village Weaver, an aptly named passerine from Africa, is among one of the craftiest avian daddies around. This determined ...

This efficiency allowed researchers to analyze wing-bone measurements from 1,520 species of passerine birds across 80 families from all continents except Antarctica. The specimens came primarily ...

If author and illustrator Matt Kracht of "A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst ... but unfortunately (and rather embarrassingly) this small passerine appears to have been mismeasured for its ...

Despite being nearly seven feet tall and weighing more than 400 ... Yeah, that's a really nice representative of a big group of passerine birds called Corvides. FIELD: And Corvids in general ...

Despite their large size — with wingspans reaching around 5.5 feet (1.7 meters) — they're also preyed upon by other birds, including eagles, owls and hawks. But these vultures have a nifty ...

Songbirds, primarily passerine birds, are adept at singing via the syrinx control ... Raptors, including Accipitriformes and Falconiformes, have powerful hooked beaks, large wings, strong feet, and ...

EPFL’s RAVEN is a fixed-wing drone that can take off without a runway using bird-inspired legs ... tendons and muscles” while its simplified feet use “two articulated structures” plus ...

These stocky passerine birds team up by the thousands ... Javier Sotomayor may hold the current world record in the high jump at eight feet, but the Emu is not far behind. The second tallest bird in ...