songbirds

Songbirds with unique colours are more likely to be traded as pets – new reserch

Songbirds with unique colours are more likely to be traded as pets – new reserch: An indigo flycatcher. Zhikai Liao, Author provided People like beautiful things. This comes as no surprise: beauty underpins highly profitable businesses, from cosmetics and art to the illegal wildlife trade, which reaps up to US$ 23 billion (£20 billion) annually …

Seagulls, songbirds and parrots: what new research tells us about their cognitive ability

Seagulls, songbirds and parrots: what new research tells us about their cognitive ability: Rooks have shown collaboration skills Author provided As you can imagine, a human intelligence test doesn’t really cut it for birds. It isn’t that easy to assess how an animal perceives information from the environment, processes it and decides to act. But …