Pesticides can render birds sterile. Migratory birds can lose sense of direction. The recent history of the world is full of many such examples ess

A crippling lack of data prevents researchers from reaching conclusions

What can we do to save the birds and ourselves from the chemical menace?

CSE confirms the presence of pesticides in animal carcasses, vultures’ main food source

There were 2,000 vultures in Bharatpur s Keoladeo National Park during the 1980s. In 1998 experts could spot only four . Ornithologist Asad Rahmani fears that the vulture is disappearing throughout India. To find out the reason for this decline,

Birds can remember. And quite well too. A new experiment sheds more light on how they do it

Bats. did they evolvefrom four legged, flightless creatures?

King penguin chicks are remarkably adept at hearing their parents' voices over the din of the colony, researchers have found. This ability, which is shared by humans, is known as the "cocktail party

As the Arctic Heats up, black guillemots are disappearing from Alaska

Redknot sandpipers use their pressure sensors to prey on buried clams

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