Birds

Owl’s flight through gusty winds could inspire new aircraft designs © Getty Images

Owl’s flight through gusty winds could inspire new aircraft designs

What is a great potoo? © Getty Images

What is a great potoo?

Do any other animals have religion? © Daniel Bright

Do any other animals have religion?

What’s the largest flying animal?

What’s the largest flying animal?

Birds and reptiles cry tears just like our own © Arianne P. Oriá

Birds and reptiles cry tears just like our own

Why do blackbirds always dive in front of my car? © Daniel Bright

Why do blackbirds always dive in front of my car?

Bird behaviour revealed using Alan Turing's mathematical models © Getty Images

Bird behaviour revealed using Alan Turing’s mathematical models

Science Focus Book Club: Further reading on birdwatching and biodiversity © Amy Barrett

Science Focus Book Club Further reading on birdwatching and biodiversity

200 million-year-old fossil shows dinosaur 'walked like a guineafowl' © Getty Images

200 million-year-old fossil shows dinosaur ‘walked like a guineafowl’

Adelie penguins are more successful with less sea ice © Getty Images

Adelie penguins are more successful with less sea ice

Wildfires can destroy habitats but diversify bird song © Getty Images

Wildfires can destroy habitats but diversify bird song

The pinkest flamingos are the most aggressive, study finds © Amy Barrett

The pinkest flamingos are the most aggressive, study finds

Re-introduce insects to cities to help urban birds, scientists say © Getty Images

Re-introduce insects to cities to help urban birds, scientists say

Mushrooms in the forest of Ordesa's national park, Huesca Spain.

The wood-wide web 5 complex networks found in nature

© David Tipling

14 stunning photos of birds making incredible journeys across the Earth