WHO: Taquito the baby bird. WHAT: A lost Mississippi kite hatchling is wrapped in a flour tortilla and saved. WHY IT’S SO GREAT: We here at Texas Monthly are smitten with animals. Our regular ...

Long before they are ready to hatch, baby birds are awake and their brains are churning, a new study suggests. As for what wakes them up, the researchers found loud, meaningful sounds, like the ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

It usually starts with a quiet morning walk, a child’s curious shriek, or a pet tugging insistently at a bush in the backyard. There it is—tiny, fragile, and utterly helpless-looking: a baby bird, ...

“Try not to talk to the birds,” a wildlife rehabilitator said. Impossible, I thought, opening an incubator door. Inside, there were several baby American robins, huddled together in a nest made from a ...