15-05-04 A Michigan State University professor was part of an international team of scientists that has discovered a new bird in China. The new bird, the Sichuan bush warbler, resides in five mountainous provinces in central China. The discovery, shared in t...

15-03-30 In the world of bird fashion, the guys seem to have all the fun: brighter feathers, sharper accessories, more pizzazz. Researchers going back to Charles Darwin have focused on the contrast between the sexes, attributing the males' brighter colors to...

15-03-25 America has the bald eagle, France the Gallic rooster and India the peacock. That Britain, a nation of animal lovers, does not have a bird to call its own, has spurned ornithologist David Lindo to action with a campaign to find our national bird. 美...

15-02-28 A singing-bird was confined in a cage which hung outside a window, and had a way of singing at night when all other birds were asleep. One night a bat came and clung to the bars of the cage, and asked the bird why she was silent by day and sang only...

14-11-27 Yi Dai is a kind of talentless bird over the East Sea. They fly slowly and lowly and have to be led by other birds while flying. They always hide among the others while resting, dare not fly ahead while proceeding, dare not be left behind while retr...

14-11-10 The dodo is among the most famous extinct creatures, and a poster child for human-caused extinction events. Despite its notoriety, and the fact that the species was alive during recorded human history, little is actually known about how this animal...

14-10-28 A tourist in Africa sent his mother an exotic bird for her birthday. When he got back to the States, he called her. Hi, Mom, he said. How'd you like the bird I gave you? It was delicious. You ate the bird! the guy shrieked. He was very expensive. He...

14-09-26 All bird migrations are fraught with danger -- from the risk of not finding enough food, to facing stormy weather, and most importantly -- trying not to be eaten along the way. Raptors such as peregrine falcons are the main predators of migratory bi...

14-09-10 The phoenix was a very colorful and very beautiful bird. The phoenix lived in a desert. There were no trees and flowers, there were no birds and fish either. The phoenix had no friends, no father and mother. No sisters and brothers. People didn't kn...

14-08-26 The Madagascar pochard, the world's rarest bird, will not be able to thrive without a new wetland home. 马达加斯加潜鸭，世界上最稀有的鸟类，需要一处新的湿地家园才可能继续繁衍生息。 This is according to a study revealing that 96% of the chicks are dy...