The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at ...

Discover how long baby birds stay in the nest, how long it takes bird eggs to hatch, how baby birds learn to fly and more ...

Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the chicks somehow manage to find their flock and ...

The film explores the diverse ways in which various bird species raise their young, highlighting the differences between precocial and altricial birds. It illustrates how Canada geese hatch goslings ...

For human observers, these precocial species offer a relatively extended period of cute, small and fluffy visibility. Which of our birds have precocial young? The most obvious are the waterfowl.

The new results on the hatchling bird finally answered the question about its lifestyle as it did indeed have feathers at birth and was thus precocial and out of the egg running.

Baby birds come in two styles: precocial or altricial. Precocial chicks, such as ducks, geese, sandpipers and turkeys, hatch from large, well-endowed eggs after long incubations. They can see, run,… ...