Bird Feeders: Good for Backyard Birds — But Not All Wildlife Should Be Fed

Bird feeders can be a genuine help for songbirds, especially during cold snaps and snow cover when their natural food gets ...
IFLScience

At 3,000 Meters, The World's Highest Known Case Of Bird Predation Has Been Recorded

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

A Biologist Explains How Prehistoric ‘Terror Birds’ Earned Their Name

Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...

Winged predator hits all-time high in San Francisco

The numbers doubled in the span of a year.

7 snakes that hunt birds in trees: How tree-living predators use stealth, camouflage, and speed to catch prey

High up from the forest floor, birds flit from limb to limb and weave their homes from leafy foliage, seemingly safe from ...
JSTOR Daily

Parent birds assess nest predation risk

Skutch hypothesized that nest predators visually assess parental activities to locate a prey nest, whereas parents modify fitness-related traits to reduce the probability of nest predation. We ...