Birds see colors that we never will, and distinguish among colors that look the same to us. Writing about how they interpret a wall of foliage as “a detailed three-dimensional world of highly ...

But that doesn’t mean all birds see things in the same way. In fact, where a bird’s eyes are on its head can tell us a lot about how it sees the world. Eyes to the front, owls!

She suggests having an eclipse party to see what the birds do. “It doesn’t happen very often.” “You can’t look at the sun during totality, but you can be looking at the birds and seeing ...

Enlarge / To find out what aspect of a zebra finch’s song matters to the birds, scientists tweaked a recorded song to see if the birds would notice. A spectrogram of the natural song is shown on ...

America’s birds are in trouble. Since 1970, nearly 3 billion birds have vanished from the skies over North America. Most of those losses have been in migratory species, which may breed in the ...