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Cartoon weasel threatening bird
BehaviorEvolution
What Can We Learn About Stress From Birds?
video 4:31
Adelie Penguin Photo: Diane Stinson/Macaulay Library
Behavior
Life in an Adelie Penguin Colony—Live From Antarctica
Archived Event 59:24
Cover of Into the Nest by Laura Erickson and Marie Read and
Behavior
Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds
Seminar Series 1:12:53
Photo: David Clode
BehaviorEvolution
Primates And Snakes: 75 Million Years of Deadly Dialogue?
Seminar Series 1:14:12
Common Yellowthroat male
BehaviorEvolution
Spotlight On Young Bird Researchers
Seminar Series 1:24:48
Amur Falcons
Behavior
A Galaxy of Falcons
Seminar Series 0:58:46
Great Black-backed Gull stealing neighbor egg
Behavior
Of Islands And Undergrads: Bird Study In The Isles Of Shoals
Seminar Series 1:11:16
AnatomyBehavior
Built to Peck: How Woodpeckers Avoid Brain Injury
video 25:00
BehaviorNesting
Cliff Swallows Build Nests From Mud
video 1:29
BehaviorFood + Foraging
Why Chickadees Grab Seeds and Go: Feeder Bird Strategies
video 1:01
Behavior
Vogelkop Bowerbird Decorates His Bower With Flowers
clip 0:52
Behavior
Superb Lyrebird Might Be the Fanciest Bird in the World
clip 1:04
Behavior
Black Skimmer Chicks Beg For Food With a Humorous Pose
clip 2:11
Behavior
Golden Eagle Lifting Off and Flying Through the Snow
clip 0:58
BehaviorFood + Foraging
Bald Eagles and Crows Eat Fish on an Alaska Beach
video 2:36
BehaviorFood + Foraging
Boreal Owl Hunting in Daylight
clip 1:51
Behavior
Dance Moves for Ducks: How to Recognize Courtship Displays
clip 2:11
BehaviorSongs + Calls
Peek at Night Birds While Hearing Their Nocturnal Calls
video 1:06
Behavior
Bird-of-Paradise Spreads His Feather Skirt and Dances
clip 1:15
BehaviorSongs + Calls
Northern Mockingbird Sings Hundreds of Borrowed Songs
clip 0:45
BehaviorNesting
Gentoo Penguins Build Rock Nests on the Antarctic Ground
video 2:!4
BehaviorEvolution
A Fancy Experiment
Interactive Feature
BehaviorEvolution
Fancy Males & Choosy Females
Interactive Feature
BehaviorEvolution
On a Sage-Grouse Lek
Interactive Feature
BehaviorEvolution
How Fanciness Evolves
Interactive Feature
BehaviorEvolution
Ways To Be Fancy
Interactive Feature
BehaviorEvolution
All About Fancy Males
Interactive Feature
Greater-Sage-Grouse male with females
BehaviorEvolution
On a Sage-Grouse Lek: Elite Males
video 1:59
Male Greater Sage-Grouse display
AnatomyBehavior
On a Sage-Grouse Lek: The Male Display
video 3:07
Greater Sage-Grouse males fight
Behavior
On a Sage-Grouse Lek: It's My Turf
video 2:05
Greater Sage-Grouse Lek
Behavior
On a Sage-Grouse Lek: The Busy Lek
video 1:01
Female Greater Sage-Grouse
BehaviorBrains + Senses
On a Sage-Grouse Lek: Female Connoisseurs
video 2:40
BehaviorSongs + Calls
Songbirds in Action
Interactive Feature
Grey Catbird singing
BehaviorSongs + Calls
An Expert Mimic: The Gray Catbird
video 4:48
Sharp-tailed Grouse battle on a lek
Behavior
Real Angry Birds: Sharp-tailed Grouse Battle
video 1:55
Ornithologist Kim Bostwick
BehaviorSongs + Calls
Singing Wings -Introduction
video 1:46
Ruffed Grouse with wings spread
BehaviorSongs + Calls
Thump!: The Ruffed Grouse Mate Attraction Display
video 2:17
The Black Sicklebill transformed during courtship display
BehaviorFeathers
Black Sicklebill: The Thin Blue Line
video 2:51
Bird-of-paradise from the genus Parotia performing a ballerina dance
BehaviorEvolution
Parotia: Ballerina Dance
video 3:04
Decoding the language of birds
BehaviorSongs + Calls
The Language of Birds
video 9:42
Territorial gulls coexist on Appledore Island in Maine
Behavior
Keeping the Peace: Threat Signals in Gull Colonies
video 3:59
Tufted Titmouse with a tracking tag at a bird feeder
BehaviorFood + Foraging
Tracking Backyard Birds
video 4:51
A young male Paradise Riflebird imitates an adult courtship display
BehaviorEvolution
Paradise Riflebird: Practice, Practice
video 2:33
Dance moves of Parotia birds-of-paradise
BehaviorEvolution
Carola's Parotia: King of the Dance
video 5:14
Female parotia viewing a ballerina dance courtship display
BehaviorBrains + Senses
Multi-Cams: Revealing the Female Perspective
video 5:22
A diagram showing the transformation of the Superb Bird-of-Paradise during courtship display
Behavior
Superb Bird-of-Paradise: Psychedelic Smiley Face
video 4:30
A silent film style tribute to the birds-of-paradise
Behavior
For Birds-of-Paradise, Life's a Stage
video 4:09
A hidden camera captures new bird-of-paradise images
Behavior
Leaf-Cam: A Hidden Camera Takes a Fresh Look
video 4:57
Wildlife photographer Tim Laman descends from the canopy
Behavior
Ingenuity: Capturing the Ideal Photo
video 3:43
BehaviorEvolution
Inspection & Touch: and the Birds-of-Paradise
video 5:08
Birds-of-Paradise transform their shape
BehaviorEvolution
Shape Shifting: and the Birds-of-Paradise
video 6:44
Birds-of-paradise dancing
BehaviorEvolution
Dance: and the Birds-of-Paradise
video 6:16
A male Gunnison Sage-Grouse displays on a lek
BehaviorConservation
On a Lek with Gunnison Sage-Grouse
video 3:26
Spoon-billed Sandpiper chick with parent
BehaviorNesting
Spoon-billed Sandpiper: Hatch
video 4:07
Spoon-billed Sandpiper foraging along the shore
BehaviorFood + Foraging
Spoon-billed Sandpiper: Foraging
video 3:09
A pair of Spoon-billed Sandpipers courting
Behavior
Spoon-billed Sandpiper: Courtship
video 3:33
A large flock of Snow Geese
BehaviorMigration
Massive Noisy Flocks: Snow Goose Migration
video 3:04
Male Magnificent Frigatebird inflates his red throat pouch
Behavior
Inflatable Throat: Magnificent Frigatebird Mating Display
video 2:42
Male Red-winged Blackbird spreads his wings
Behavior
Brilliant Flash: Red-winged Blackbird Territorial Displays
video 3:13
Common Nighthawk dives creating a buzzing sound with its feathers
BehaviorSongs + Calls
Zoom!: The Aerial Display of the Common Nighthawk
video 2:41
Yellow-billed Loon tucks its leg under a wing in cold water
AnatomyBehavior
How Yellow-billed Loons Survive in the Arctic
video 3:06
A group of young Royal Terns in a colony
BehaviorNesting
Tern Colony: A Creche For The Young
video 1:33
Golden-Eagle-on-a-Soaring-Thermal
Behavior
Golden Eagle Soaring on a Thermal
clip 1:32
Golden-Eagle-in-a-Hunting-Stoop
BehaviorFood + Foraging
Golden Eagle in a Hunting Stoop
clip 0:41
Banded-Kingfisher-Gives-Nuptial-Gift
Behavior
Banded Kingfisher Gives Nuptial Gift
clip 1:20
Philippine Eagle in flight
BehaviorFeathers
Slow Motion Philippine Eagle Flight
clip 1:12
Philippine Eagle Soaring
Behavior
Soaring Philippine Eagle
clip 1:02
Philippine Eagle Landing
Behavior
Philippine Eagle Landing on a Branch
clip 0:38
Golden Eagle Landing
Behavior
Golden Eagle Landing
clip 0:29
Mountain Bluebird Flying Into the Wind
Behavior
Mountain Bluebird Flying in the Wind
clip 0:15
Satin Bowerbirds at bower
Behavior
Female Satin Bowerbird Visiting Bower
clip 2:19
Wire-tailed Manakin
Behavior
Wire-tailed Manakin Courtship Display
clip 1:13
BehaviorFeathers
Twelve-wired Bird-of-Paradise Male-Female Plumage Differences
clip 0:54
Preening-Stork-billed-Kingfisher
BehaviorFeathers
Preening Stork-billed Kingfisher
clip 0:55
BehaviorFeathers
Subadult Plumage of the Paradise Riflebird
clip 1:20
King-Penguins-Incubating-Eggs-with-their-Feet
BehaviorNesting
King Penguins Incubating Eggs on Their Feet
clip 0:53
Behavior
Vibrant Red House Finch