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Scientists and bird-lovers have celebrated the precarious recovery of the endangered piping plover, a shy but gregarious little shoreline bird that has delighted beach-goers as it scurries along ...

Avid birder Leslie Sours was gardening in her Upper Arlington yard on a fine day in April when she was startled by a bullet-like bird whooshing over. Its emphatic yipping calls drew her eyes skyward ...

The merlin is a scrapper of a falcon known for picking on much larger birds and for eating smaller birds, which it snatches in mid-air during pursuits that are so speedy they’ll take your breath away.

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 34, No. 3 (1994), pp. 217-223 (7 pages) Skylarks show a range of anti-predation behaviours including flocking, refuge-seeking and song. Responses by skylarks ...

Meet the Merlins: Spike, the mother, is the feisty one. Thor, the father, is calmer, the main provider. Then there’s Puff, so rambunctious he fell from a tree before he could fly. The family ...