Billions of periodical cicadas emerge every 13 or 17 years in the eastern United States, creating an all-you-can-eat buffet for birds. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images When huge broods of cicadas ...

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Birds will sometimes care for the offspring of other birds of their own species if they anticipate future benefits. Being tolerated in another bird's territory and the chance to inherit that territory ...

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The Department of Natural Resources is seeking assistance from the public over the coming months to provide data for two Wisconsin wildlife surveys. Operation Deer Watch is held Aug. 1 through Sept.

Parenting can be lots of work for a bird: all that flying back and forth transporting grubs and insects to a nest of demanding young. But some birds manage to forgo caring for their chicks — while ...

Normal winter conditions, combined with a slightly earlier spring greening during 2014-15 have contributed to positive breeding and nesting conditions for ruffed grouse, pheasant and wild turkeys, ...

A mysterious deadly disease that was killing thousands of blue jays, robins, starlings and other songbirds across the mid-Atlantic US this summer seems to be subsiding, according to wildlife experts.

This spring’s emergence of periodical cicadas in the eastern U.S. will make more than a buzz. Their bodies—which will number in the billions—will also create an unparalleled food fest for legions of ...

Eye size likely plays a role in the contest between avian brood parasites -- birds that lay their eggs in the nests of other species -- and their hosts, who sometimes detect the foreign eggs and eject ...