From the earliest days of warfare, it’s never been enough to be able to build a deadlier weapon than your enemy can. Making a sharper spear, an arrow that flies farther and straighter, or a more ...

Scientists and bird-lovers have celebrated the precarious recovery of the endangered piping plover, a shy but gregarious little shoreline bird that has delighted beach-goers as it scurries along ...

Avid birder Leslie Sours was gardening in her Upper Arlington yard on a fine day in April when she was startled by a bullet-like bird whooshing over. Its emphatic yipping calls drew her eyes skyward ...

The merlin is a scrapper of a falcon known for picking on much larger birds and for eating smaller birds, which it snatches in mid-air during pursuits that are so speedy they’ll take your breath away.

Determinants of adult dispersal were studied in a population of color-banded Merlins (Falco columbarius). In the analysis, I examined the effects of local population density, breeding performance, ...

Meet the Merlins: Spike, the mother, is the feisty one. Thor, the father, is calmer, the main provider. Then there’s Puff, so rambunctious he fell from a tree before he could fly. The family ...

Britain's smallest falcon, the merlin, is making its way back to the coastal pastures and salt marshes where it willl spend ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 34, No. 3 (1994), pp. 217-223 (7 pages) Skylarks show a range of anti-predation behaviours including flocking, refuge-seeking and song. Responses by skylarks ...