There are not many true loners in the bird world. Many types of social birds—from sparrows to sandpipers and gulls to goldfinches—will gather in flocks of their own kind, or with other species that ...

While sitting on my back porch one day during late afternoon, my leisurely pursuit was interrupted as a large and seemingly nervous flock of red-winged blackbirds happened to fly by my location. The ...

A shape-shifting flock of thousands of starlings, called a murmuration, is amazing to see. As many as 750,000 birds join together in flight. The birds spread out and come together. The flock splits ...

A riverside tract that includes wetlands, forest and colorful native plants also attracts a sky full of birds. Bird enthusiasts found that out at the invitation of the Watershed Conservation Resource ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The late Oxford University biologist William D. Hamilton discussed the advantages of ...

Joan Strassman wrote a book, The Social Lives of Birds, and this piece might increase sales of this book since it is about the same topic and is cited. The late Oxford University biologist William D.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Joan Strassmann, Washington University in St. Louis (THE CONVERSATION) As I walked ...