Essential health maintenance for some birds requires active anting to ensure feather integrity. Secretions from the Formicinae subfamily produce a stinging sensation that complicates the cleaning ...

This is how we do it. I'm talking about birds. Every so often, they, like us, let loose and do what it takes to feel really, really good. The bird version is to sit on an anthill so that hundreds of ...

Here's a crazy story for you. The other day I put mothballs around my garden in an effort to keep the critters out. The next day I noticed that a flock of grackles had discovered the mothballs and ...

A guide for a safari lodge in South Africa has captured extraordinary footage showing a large hornbill perched atop an ant hill while allowing the insencts to swarm over its body. Yes, the ...

Photographer Tony Austin recently captured a peculiar image of a crow with its wings covered in dozens of tiny black ants in the throes of what appeared to be a behaviour he described as a "very odd ...

Here's a crazy story for you. The other day I put mothballs around my garden in an effort to keep the critters out. The next day I noticed that a flock of grackles had discovered the mothballs and ...

ANOTHER LIFE:THE EARLY-MORNING blackbird on a cobbled patch in the garden was engaged in a strange avian exercise. It was dipping its beak to the ground, then plunging it among its feathers, first of ...

There are some pretty strange ways that animals clean themselves. While cats groom themselves with their tongues, other animals like hippos rely on fish to keep them clean. But what about birds?

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Photographer Tony ...