With so many birds worldwide, it would be easy to be overrun with them if their populations exploded. What keeps bird populations constant, and how do they deal with this? Most bird populations...
Category: Reproduction
Birds are amazing animals that lay eggs. Bird watchers observe every element of the life history of the birds. What could be more interesting than watching an egg hatch into a chick...
Co-operative breeding is not restricted to birds, but mammals, amphibians, insects, arachnids, and fish also breed in this way. In this article, we will look at what co-operative breeding is and why...
Monogamy, staying with one partner, is much more common in birds than it is in mammals. It is thought that about 90% of all bird species are monogamous for at least part of the breeding season. In...
Although 90% of all bird species stay with one partner for at least part of a season, there are many that have more than one partner. In this article, I look at some of the different ways polygamy...
Courtship in birds is often long and complicated, and because of this, it surprised me that many birds don't stay together after breeding. Birds have different mating systems depending on the...