Our bird skeleton collection, also called the avian osteology collection, is the largest of its kind in the UK. It contains around 16,600 specimens, including complete and partial skeletons and skulls ...

These lessons were designed to accompany the first two parts of the PBS Life of Birds series ... the fossil evidence to trace the progress of winged flight from Pterodactyl to Archaeopteryx ...

More information: Andrew Orkney et al, Small body size is associated with increased evolutionary lability of wing skeleton ...

This documentary tells the story of the inimitable kea The Clown of the Alps is heralded as the worlds smartest bird its intelligence rivals a monkeys Kea are famous on South Island tracks and ski ...

The ultimate bird strike, or a collision between a plane ... "The runway needed to be closed for about 30 minutes for ...

To generate lift, a bird has merely to tilt its wings, adjusting the flow of air below and above them. Airplane wings exploit some of the same aerodynamic tricks. But a bird wing is vastly more ...

GoPro footage uploaded to YouTube on Monday shows the bird perched on a balcony on a bright day. Spotting the camera, the parrot hops over, snatches it and leaps into flight. The bird is a kea ...

This year’s Bird Photographer of the Year competition winners offer us both a celebration of avian diversity and human creativity as well as a window into our evolving relationships with these ...

The kea has overcome vote-rigging and online trolling to be named New Zealand's Bird of the Year after two weeks of heated campaigning. While last month's New Zealand election means Jacinda Arden ...