Hanging parrots of tropical southern Asia regularly hang upside down from branches in the canopy.

Darwin’s finches no longer recognize the birdsong of conspecifics whose beak shape has evolved due to ecological adaptation.

Canary. Image by Alfred Grupstra from Pixabay. The canary in the cage is hungry.

Rosy-faced lovebird. Image by Jeffry Surianto from Pexels. Researchers have described ‘beakiation’, a new climbing mode in parrots, for the first time.

Black woodpecker. Image by Daniil Komov from Pexels. I should start with a confession: In contrast to what the title implies, woodpeckers do get stuck in trees.

Pileated woodpecker. Image by Patrice Bouchard from unsplash. “Why Don’t Woodpeckers Get Headaches?

Serinus canaria. Image by Ralph from Pixabay. If you have a cat living outdoors, you will probably have experienced the sad incident that the cat caught a little songbird.