When you think of flight, you think of planes, birds. Maybe you even think of bats or insects, but I’m prepared to bet dinosaurs aren’t the first thing you thought of… The story of how birds got their wings goes back a long way. Birds are marvellously well adapted to flying and believe it or not, many of these adaptations are relics of their reptilian past.

Magnetoreception is one of these fascinating junctions where quantum physics, chemistry, neuroscience and behavioural biology meet, and it is still a new area of study…

The mechanisms that drive different animals to migration are far from being the same. To test this, researchers have compared the Eurasian blackcap’s migration with that of the North American monarch.

Somewhere within the Bird department of the Natural History museum in London is a specimen of unknown provenance: known only as specimen 12.192.

Nick Davies and Mike Brooke’s research goes on as they further investigate another arms race.

Myths and legends concerning the cuckoo’s singular and oddly fascinating behaviour have been deep-rooted in our culture for millenia, but what tricks do they actually use to deceive their hosts?

While many are aware of toxic reptiles, the existence of poisonous birds is little-known.

The story of how the takahe came back from the brink of extinction…