As you begin to see nests full of baby chicks and fledgling birds hopping around in your backyard, you may wonder: how do birds mate? The answer is actually different from what we’ve come to expect as ...

The strange-looking Picathartes have lived in the Congo for 44 million years. Bald-headed birds that mate for life and breed in the rainy season, they build their nests out of mud on the underside of ...