Seabirds called common murres appear to use preening as a way to negotiate whose turn it is to watch their chick and who must find food. And when one parent is feeling foul, irregularities in this ...

The more we study nonhuman animals (animals) the more we learn about how sophisticated some of their behavior truly is. In many species it takes both parents to successfully rear their youngsters ...

A bird’s actions being its words, a birder is by default a Ray Birdwhistell, the anthropologist who collected “words” humans speak without their lips. However, playing Birdwhistell to avians is as ...