Birds

The Scared Crater Lake of Oregon

Crater Lake, known as “Old Man of the Lake,” is a caldera lake located in south-central Oregon in the western United States. Crater Lake is famous due to its...

Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus)

Habitat: The Rainbow Bee-eater is a communal bird, whether residing on breeding grounds in southern and central Australia,...

Why Drunken Trees Behave in Mysterious Way

What are Drunken Trees? Drunken trees are a stand of trees displaced from their normal vertical alignment. This most...

10 Reasons to Add Chia Seeds in Your Diet

Chia seeds come from a flowering plant in the mint family that's native to Mexico and Guatemala, and...

How to Grow Best Flavors and Sweet Carrots

How to Grow Best Flavors and Sweet Carrots If you pull up a Queen Anne’s lace plant growing along...

King of Saxony – The Bird-of-Paradise

The King of Saxony, or Alberti, has been described in the 1894 bulletin of the British Ornithologist’s Club by Adolf Bernard Meyer of the...

Yellow-throated euphonia (Euphonia hirundinacea)

The Yellow-throated Euphonia (Euphonia hirundinacea) ranges from southern Mexico to western Panama, through the lowlands of both coasts and into the highlands to an...

House Wren Nesting Behavior, Song, and Diet

House Wren is a compact, small songbird with a flat head and long curved beak belonging to the wren family. The most widely distributed...

Purple Sunbird vs Purple-rumped Sunbird

Many bird lovers are interested to know about the difference between Purple Sunbird vs Purple-rumped Sunbird. Both are tiny and colorful birds. In this...

Tawny Grassbird (Cincloramphus timoriensis)

The Tawny Grassbird (Cincloramphus timoriensis) lives in tall rank grassland in swampy pockets and flood plains around northern and eastern coastal Australia. The species...

Golden-headed cisticola (Cisticola exilis)

The stunning golden-headed cisticola (Cisticola exilis) inhabits taller, swampier grassland than Zitting. It is typically found near fresh water and is more widespread in...

Common Hawk-cuckoo Call

Common Hawk-cuckoo Call There is evidence to suggest some small birds resemble sparrow hawks, Accipiter nisus, when responding to common cuckoos, Cuculus canorus. Many of...

Ribbon-Tailed Astrapia – Most Beautiful Bird of Paradise

One of the most outstanding birds of paradise, the male Ribbon-tailed Astrapia has the longest tail feathers in relation to the body size of...

Bourke’s parrot (Neopsephotus bourkii)

Behavior & Habitats: In contrast to early parrots, Bourke's Parrot is moderately common throughout the mulga woods of the interior, and its numbers have...

White Bellbird – World’s Loudest Bird

Scientists think that the male White Bellbird (Procnias albus) has the loudest call of any bird species recorded to date. The bird produces its...