birds

Birds have to change their tune or get out of town

29 Oct 2009, 11.25 AM

The noise of traffic, machinery and air conditioners may be driving birds with low-pitched songs away from cities, and leading others to raise the pitch of their singing to be heard above the din.

Mothers give interloper’s offspring a head start in life

14 May 2009, 5.43 PM

A new study has revealed that mother birds can provide an early advantage to the chicks that they have sired with their non-social partner (known as extra-pair offspring).