With its glossy black plumage and piercing eyes and call, this clever corvid is a familiar sight across Australia's diverse landscapes. The Australian Raven is a large, glossy black bird with a robust ...

A male Blackbird sings slow, mellow, whistled phrases, each usually ending in a short, scratchy twitter, most regularly from March to June and richest at dawn. Its calls include a loud chink, a low ...

Baby pigeons, called squabs, hatch after 16-19 days with closed eyes and a sparse coat of yellow down. Both parents feed them crop milk from the lining of the crop, then seeds. They stay hidden in the ...

Dark-eyed Juncos eat seeds above all, especially weed and grass seeds, and add insects in summer, when they feed their chicks. At feeders they like millet scattered on the ground. What they eat ...

In early spring, cardinals feed on the ground for seeds in fields, meadows and leaf litter. Once the leaves open, they move up into trees and shrubs for buds and caterpillars. In fall they take fruit ...

Magpies build a big domed nest of sticks high in a tree, starting as early as December. In Britain the first eggs are laid around 22 April: usually 5 or 6 pale blue-green eggs, incubated by the female ...

Pigeons eat mostly seeds, grain and fruit, with the odd snail, slug or earthworm. Town pigeons add bread and other food people leave: in a Leeds study bread was in most feral pigeons' crops in every ...

What bird is singing? Let your phone listen or upload a recording, and Birdfact names the birds it hears, with their songs to ...

House Finches eat almost nothing but plants: in a classic California study seeds, buds, flowers and fruit made up 97% of their diet, and even their chicks are raised on seeds. At feeders they take ...

The Northern Goshawk, more commonly known simply as the goshawk, is a large bird of prey, widespread throughout the northern hemisphere, with deciduous and coniferous forests their preferred habitat.

Goldfinches eat small seeds above all, especially thistles, knapweeds, dandelions and teasels, plus birch and alder in winter. In gardens they prefer sunflower hearts, then nyjer; seed should go out ...

With razor-sharp talons and a powerful build, this fierce raptor rules the treetops of sub-Saharan Africa's forests. The Crowned Eagle is a striking raptor with a dark brown back, black-barred white ...