For years the silhouette of a 'bird' has sparked intrigue at Goodison Park. Now it has gone, prompting even more questions. During an admittedly quiet international break, the ECHO looked into ...

Our bird skeleton collection, also called the avian osteology collection, is the largest of its kind in the UK. It contains around 16,600 specimens, including complete and partial skeletons and skulls ...

Birds are found worldwide and in all habitats. The largest is the nine-foot-tall ostrich. The smallest is the two-inch-long bee hummingbird. Everything about the anatomy of a bird reflects its ...

The Bearded Vulture is a unique bird that specialises in eating bone marrow by breaking bones and swallowing them whole ...

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy, functions similarly to a human cortex. It is the outer brain shell responsible for controlling perception and some ...

These lessons were designed to accompany the first two parts of the PBS Life of Birds series. Although this lesson plan was developed primarily for grades 9-12, teachers of elementary or middle ...