At times, you may find a baby bird outside its nest. While your natural inclination may be to rescue a baby bird you find on the ground, that’s not always necessary or recommended by wildlife ...

The narrator reflects on their childhood experiences learning about eggs and the various animals that hatch from them. Initially believing only chickens lay eggs, they discover that many birds ...

Baby birds come in two styles: precocial or altricial. Precocial chicks, such as ducks, geese, sandpipers and turkeys, hatch from large, well-endowed eggs after long incubations. They can see, run,… ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- In his home office in Durham, Duke neuroscientist Richard Mooney shows a series of images of a bird’s brain on song. In one, what looks like a pointillist painting illustrates a ...

All baby birds have a moment prior to hatching when their hip bone is a tiny replica of a dinosaur’s pelvis, a new, Yale-led study finds.

See New Images of Pesto, Australia’s Enormous Baby Penguin, in His ‘Awkward Phase,’ Molting His Downy Feathers The viral king penguin chick at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium is beginning to ...

So when vulnerable birds are distracted and tempted inland by mistake, some humans give them a literal helping hand by rounding them up and casting the baby birds out to sea in the name of ...

If you find a baby bird seemingly in distress, you should watch it and call a rescue center before you act. Not all chicks and young birds that are off the nest need rescuing.

A family sprung into action when they found a shivering, orphan baby bird, but had to get creative when they realized they had no blankets around.

New research indicates that nestlings in highly radioactive parts of the CEZ do experience subtle biological differences from those reared in clean areas.

When a family in Amarillo saved a baby bird they found in their backyard by wrapping it in a warm tortilla, it was a first for a wildlife rehab center now caring for the the Mississippi kite.