The most attractive male birds attract more females and as a result are most successful in terms of reproduction. This is the starting point of many studies looking for factors that influence sexual ...

One may expect a creature that darts around its habitat to be capable of perceiving rapid changes as well. Yet birds are famed more for their good visual acuity. Joint research by Uppsala University, ...

Backyard songbirds, like cardinals and chickadees, see the world with visual clarity surpassing human eyesight. Acute bird vision derives from the retina's fovea - the center of sharpest vision - that ...

Aug. 29 (UPI) --According to a new study, some birds of prey can detect contrasts between objects at a greater distance than humans -- but only if the object is a different color than the background.

What does it feel like to be another species? In 1974, philosopher Thomas Nagel argued in his paper “What is it like to be a bat?” that we can never truly know. He chose the bat because it is a mammal ...

Where do birds live? How do they behave? How vulnerable are they to changes in their habitat? To answer those questions, researchers used to look toward factors such as size or migration patterns. But ...

One may expect a creature that darts around its habitat to be capable of perceiving rapid changes as well. Yet birds are famed more for their good visual acuity. New research now shows that, in small ...