There are 118 species of weaverbirds (family: Ploceidae) and most of them live in sub-Saharan Africa. These sparrow-sized songbirds get their common name from the elaborate nests they construct. But ...

The Birsa zoo purchases nearly 95 kilograms of poultry chicken every day to feed its carnivores. While the carnivores will settle for a changed diet, the birds in the zoo’s aviary will be randomly ...

Roofs of enclosures of birds have been covered, so droppings of birds flying above doesn’t fall and infect them Roofs of enclosures of birds have been covered, so droppings of birds flying above doesn ...

The magnetic sense in migratory birds has been studied in considerable detail: unlike a boy scout's compass, which shows the compass direction, a bird's compass recognizes the inclination of the ...

New Delhi [India], August 29 (ANI): A sizeable proportion of Indian bird species, especially carnivores, insectivores, or granivores are “declining more rapidly than omnivores and nectar eaters, ...

Small Australian birds that have turned carnivorous and started chasing away larger animals to feed on raw meat have left experts stunned. Griffith University researchers looking into the meat-eating ...

FLORENCE, Italy, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A giant "terror bird" in Europe 40 million years ago was a peaceful vegetarian, not the terrifying predator many have believed ...

Hyderabad: Raw chicken, a staple of carnivores in the Nehru Zoological Park, will no longer be served. It would be replaced with mincemeat, officials of the park said as began stepping up measures to ...

The G B Pant High Altitude Zoo in Nainital has been put on high alert in view of the rapidly spreading bird flu across the country. The State Forest Department and Nainital zoo administration took the ...