If you’ve ever been chased by an angry seagull at the beach, you’ve experienced a bird behavior called mobbing. Many species of birds have realized there is strength in numbers, especially when they ...

Reed warblers use mobbing as a front line of nest defense against parasitic cuckoos, according to a new report. Cuckoos act as parasites by laying their eggs in the nests of other birds, reed warblers ...

Dive bombing a much larger bird isn't just a courageous act by often smaller bird species to keep predators at bay. It also gives male birds the chance to show off their physical qualities in order to ...

Loud, jeering calls rang from behind a building, sending me on a swift walk into the open where I could get a clear view of the sky. And there they all were: a horde of crows chasing one big bird with ...

Last summer, physicist Suzanne Amador Kane at Haverford College in Pennsylvania set up an experiment looking at how flocks of small birds on her campus -- swallows -- defend themselves from predators ...

Ecologists tend to think of mobbing behavior as primarily a way that smaller birds protect their nests and chicks from larger predators. Shown here, a Willie wagtail attacking an Australian raven. Ray ...

Have you ever looked skyward to see a hawk in flight being hotly pursued and pecked on by several tiny birds? This behavior is known as mobbing and it is an effective way for songbirds to drive off ...

The northern hawk owl that has often been seen this winter, out at the edges of the wetlands, is a solitary hunter. It usually preys on small mammals, but it is also reported to capture birds, even ...

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Dive bombing a much larger bird isn't just a courageous act by often smaller bird species to keep predators at bay. It also gives male birds the chance to show off their physical qualities in order to ...

Reed warblers use mobbing as a front line of nest defense against parasitic cuckoos, according to a new report published online on January 29th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. Cuckoos ...