Mating dances are not unusual in the bird kingdom, but the displays put on by birds of paradise are mesmerizing. The male bird in the above clip is doing his best to impress a female, and the display ...

Quick Take Sandhill cranes perform a funny-looking courtship dance to show off their fitness and strength to potential mates.

What’s black and white all over, puts on a mesmerizing mating performance and definitely doesn’t belong in Florida? A parasitic African songbird that could threaten the state’s native birds. In the ...

The beloved American woodcocks returned to Bryant Park and set off a birding frenzy to watch the dancing wobbler, also known ...

When it comes to impressing the ladies, greater sage-grouse males know that smooth dance moves trump combative posturing. Indeed, new Yale research into these prairie-dwelling birds confirms that ...