Birds

19 beautiful pictures from the Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2020 competition © Jesslyn Saw

19 beautiful pictures from the Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2020 competition

Feel-good Friday: Positive news from the world of science and tech © Getty Images

Feel-good Friday Positive news from the world of science and tech - 24 April 2020

Birds cool their beaks when food is scarce to save energy © Getty Images

Birds cool their beaks when food is scarce to save energy

Are camouflaged animals aware that they can only hide in certain environments? © Getty Images

Are camouflaged animals aware that they can hide only in certain environments?

Meet 'Wonderchicken', the oldest fossil of a modern bird (Dr Daniel Field from Cambridge’s Department of Earth Sciences with a 3D printed version of the Wonderchicken skull © Dr Daniel J Field/ PA)

Meet ‘Wonderchicken’, the oldest known fossil of a modern bird

Warming oceans drive almost 60 per cent drop in chinstrap penguin population © Getty Images

Warming oceans drive almost 60 per cent drop in chinstrap penguin population

Penguin speech follows human language rules © Getty Images

Penguin speech follows human language rules

Evolution would likely lead to 'very similar-looking organisms' if it started again © Getty Images

Evolution would likely lead to ‘very similar-looking organisms’ if it started again

Is it possible to hatch a chick from a supermarket egg? © Getty Images

Everyday science

Is it possible to hatch a chick from a supermarket egg?

How do baby birds breathe inside their eggs? © Getty Images

How do baby birds breathe inside their eggs?

London parakeet 'crime map' rules out Jimi Hendrix release myth © Getty Images

Did Jimi Hendrix release parakeets onto the streets of London? Not according to new ‘crime map’ study

Feeding wildlife: can it do more harm than good? © Getty Images

Reality Check Can feeding wildlife do more harm than good?

Birds are getting smaller as the climate gets warmer © Field Museum, Ben Marks

Birds are getting smaller as the climate gets warmer

Flightless birds’ feathers offer clues to evolution of flight © Shao Huan Lang

Flightless birds’ feathers offer clues to evolution of flight

Do crows actually fly in a straight line? © Getty Images

Do crows actually fly in a straight line?