Researchers and volunteers in Texas documented birds of different species preening one another. Experts say the behavior may be more common than documented.

We are likely all familiar with preening, the well-known and important bird behavior that helps maintain feather health and ...

Zoo staff say the female hawk and female turkey vulture share food, preen each other and have even attempted to raise eggs.

Because birds live outdoors, there's an assumption that they're dirty and harbor many insect pests among their feathers. But this is very wide of the mark: Birds are as clean as cats, spending almost ...

Despite their famously fancy feathers, flamingos don’t spent more time preening than other waterbirds, new research shows. Scientists watched five of the world’s six flamingo species to see how they ...

SUPERIOR — A trio of turkeys that escaped a spot on the Thanksgiving table wandered around a yard in the Billings Park area of Superior on Wednesday morning. The birds spent time snacking and preening ...

Bird anxiety rarely shows up all at once. It creeps in through small changes, like nonstop screaming from a parakeet or a ...

The more we study nonhuman animals (animals) the more we learn about how sophisticated some of their behavior truly is. In many species it takes both parents to successfully rear their youngsters ...

There are some pretty strange ways that animals clean themselves. While cats groom themselves with their tongues, other ...