Somewhere in the African grasslands, a tiny bird is preparing an elaborate fraud. The cuckoo finch doesn’t build a nest or ...

African cuckoo finches (Anomalospiza imberbis) are very deceptive birds, or at least the mothers are. They sneak into the ...

When we think of glaciers, polar bears and penguins often come to mind. Finches are more associated with backyards than icy ledges, but one species found a way to survive one of Earth's most extreme ...

From Mexico to New Zealand, Europe to the remote Galápagos islands, researchers have observed an odd behavior of numerous bird species that we are only now potentially beginning to understand: They ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. A bored and homesick English woman living in Africa became a human nest for a weakling finch for nearly three months. “Each day, he made little ‘nests’ ...