“Birds of a feather flock together.” You’ve heard this phrase hundreds, or maybe even thousands of times — but do you know what it means? Do birds of a feather really flock together in nature, or is ...

If you don’t have your own backyard flock, you may not believe that the chicken pecking order is real, let alone that it’s ...

While sitting on my back porch one day during late afternoon, my leisurely pursuit was interrupted as a large and seemingly nervous flock of red-winged blackbirds happened to fly by my location. The ...

Joan Strassman wrote a book, The Social Lives of Birds, and this piece might increase sales of this book since it is about the same topic and is cited. The late Oxford University biologist William D.

Flocking behavior is a form of group decision-making that has been well modeled, but not well studied in actual birds. Work released this week (September 25) in Journal of the Royal Society Interface ...