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After their habitats were destroyed, tens of thousands of parrots have descended on a town in Argentina, terrorizing residents.

Science & Energy

Parrots Orchestrate Brutal Revenge on Small Town After Deforestation Drove Them Out of Their Homes

By Frank Landymore

Eagles and drones go together like pie and ice cream — and in a new video, one raptor shows just how awesome its predatory skills really are.

Amazing Footage Shows Drone Getting Attacked by a Furious Eagle

By Noor Al-Sibai

A crafty Eurasian magpie stuck together some 1,500 anti-bird spikes to build a fortified, two-foot-wide nest.

Science & Energy

Bird Uses Anti-Bird Spikes to Create Fortified Nest

By Victor Tangermann

Lonely Parrots Love Video Chatting With Each Other, Study Finds

Science & Energy

Lonely Parrots Love Video Chatting With Each Other, Study Finds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group of NYC bird advocates are denouncing whoever bought and dyed pink a domesticated pigeon for a gender reveal before releasing it into the wild.

Science & Energy

Bird Advocates Horrified by Pigeon Dyed Pink For Gender Reveal Party

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research shows that standard goose harassment tactics are horribly ineffective at shooing — and keeping — away geese.

Science & Energy

Furious Geese Are Defeating Humans, Scientists Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A raven in Canberra, Australia, decided it had enough of a local business sending coffee to a customer in the area via a Google delivery drone.

Watch a Raven Attack a Google Coffee Delivery Drone

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Cambridge psychologists have demonstrated that magic tricks can fool birds, based on a snack-based version of the shell game.

Science & Energy

Magic Tricks Can Fool Birds, Say Scientists With Nothing Better To Do

By Dan Robitzski

Neuroscientists found that crows have conscious and subjective experiences, challenging assumptions about animal intelligence and human superiority.ogical constraints

Science & Energy

Scientists Claim to Have Proved That Crows Have Conscious Experiences

By Dan Robitzski

When the world around them quieted down, white-crowned sparrows living near San Francisco learned a new, more intricate song.

Birds Learned a New Song During the Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

Aerospace multinational Airbus is investigating a new way for airliners to save fuel: fly in formation, just like a herd of migrating geese.

Advanced Transport

Here’s Why Airliners Might Soon Fly in Formation Like Birds

By Victor Tangermann

The Department of Energy recently signed a contract with an AI lab to come up with a machine learning bird watcher to study bird around solar farms.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Are Using an “AI Bird Watcher” to Solve a Solar Farm Bird Massacre Mystery

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have figured out a way to implant memories in the brains of young zebra finches, thereby teaching them how to sing.

Science & Energy

Scientists Zap Birds’ Brains With Light to Implant False Memories

By Victor Tangermann

Preventing bird collisions with planes and other manmade objects could be as simply as adding red or blue LEDs to our creations.

Science & Energy

Planes Kill Huge Numbers of Birds. LEDs Could Save Their Lives.

By Kristin Houser

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Artificial Intelligence

Cambridge Scientists: We Shouldn’t Define Intelligence According to Humanity

By Jelor Gallego

birds remote sensing extinction

Science & Energy

Silent Skies: 200 New Bird Species Face Extinction

By Jelor Gallego