Hatching failure rates in birds are almost twice as high as experts previously estimated, according to the largest ever study of its kind by researchers from the University of Sheffield, Institute of ...

Birds exhibit a wide variety of fascinating nesting and offspring-rearing behaviors throughout their lifecycle. Against the odds, they protect and guide their young from hatching to leaving the nest ...

A bill being discussed in the Minnesota Legislature first aimed to ban hatching of all birds within Minnesota schools now aims to specifically ban the hatching of waterfowl. HF 4655, which seeks to ...

The long-legged African species has bred there for the first time in the zoo's 95-year history.

Bird is the word on Tumby Island, South Australia (SA), as the conservation park off the southern end of Tumby Bay on Eyre Peninsula welcomed the arrival of a rare eastern osprey chick. While those ...

The birth of the Southern Cassowary chick is a major milestone for the Bourton-on-the-Water wildlife attraction – which has been trying to breed the giant birds on site for more than 25 years.

New study from the University of Sheffield, IoZ, and UCL found more than one in six bird eggs fail to hatch Hatching failure increases as species decline, so the new research could be used to predict ...