Category: birds

So, you like watching birds – join the club! A pair of binoculars is an essential tool to have in your bird watching kit. But choosing the right binoculars …

Do birds have intelligence? The answer is undoubtedly yes. In fact we might say that everything has a certain innate intelligence – it’s ability to deal with variability in …

Go to Table of Passerines Orders and Families of Non-Passerine Birds

Go to Table of Non-Passerines for other bird orders. Orders and Families of Passerine Birds

Feathers are of ultimate importance to birds. And though they can be replaced, if they are to function properly they have to be kept in good condition. There are …

Bird Mating Strategies Like all living things, birds reproduce. However, unlike most other animals, their breeding rituals and special physical constructions are often visible to us. This opens a …

Moulting In Birds Bird feathers get damaged and need replacing regularly – via moulting. Normally this happens once a year, though in some species a second moult occurs. This …

Recently Extinct Birds Extinction was forever… once. But modern biologists are doing their best to unravel the mysteries of DNA coding and cloning, so that extinct species may one …

Bird Identification For most people, the first step into the fascinating world of avian ecology is learning to identify their local birds. Normally the effort to satisfy this desire …

Birds are a part of the Class Aves, which in turn is part of the Phylum Chordata and the Subphylum Vertebrata. For more on the how and why of bird classification, see Bird …