The Ancient Honey Hunting Tradition That Depends on a Wild Bird

Although dogs were the first animals to be domesticated by humans, other animals have been cooperating with people in ...
NPR

This wild African bird comes when it's called—and then leads you to honey

Honeyguides are wild birds that team up with humans and then lead them to honey. Researchers recently found that the calls these birds respond to are unique and tied to their location. For example, ...

From the Nile to the neighborhood: Exotic waterfowl now at home here

Noisy, aggressive and invasive, these big birds may not actually be geese, but they sure act like it. What you should know ...
The Hill

African migratory birds threatened by hot, dry weather

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s migratory birds are threatened by changing weather patterns in the center and east of the continent that have depleted natural water systems and caused a devastating ...
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Africa’s waterbirds fly the gauntlet of hunger, disease, bullets and human ‘development’

The threats to the migratory movements of land-bound wild animals are quite well known. Boundary fences, busy highways, human settlements and other physical obstacles have increasingly blocked or ...
Mongabay

Rescued African gray parrots return to DRC forests

In early October, 50 African gray parrots were released into the wild by the Lukuru Foundation, after having been rescued from poachers and undergoing rehabilitation for a year at a refuge run by the ...

Nest-building birds help disperse cotton further than wind, study suggests

Birds play a larger role in the dispersal of wild cotton than previously assumed. This is shown by a study in the journal ...