Dive bombing a much larger bird isn't just a courageous act by often smaller bird species to keep predators at bay. It also gives male birds the chance to show off their physical qualities in order to ...

If you’ve ever been chased by an angry seagull at the beach, you’ve experienced a bird behavior called mobbing. Many species of birds have realized there is strength in numbers, especially when they ...

Q: A pair of red-tailed hawks has nested near our house for years. Several times I have seen one or both of them harassed by crows. I watched a five-minute dogfight today with the hawk just trying to ...

Q. Why don't hawks fight back when crows mob them? They seem almost indifferent to the attacks, like one I saw yesterday. He just sat at the top of the tree as the crows dove at him. He didn’t budge.

Fleeing isn’t the only way by which songbirds can protect themselves against predators. Many songbird species are known to engage in mobbing, where they gather aggressively around a bird of prey, ...

Reed warblers use mobbing as a front line of nest defense against parasitic cuckoos, according to a new report. Cuckoos act as parasites by laying their eggs in the nests of other birds, reed warblers ...

Birds aggressively chase snakes away from their nests. This behavior, known as mobbing, is a defense system to protect eggs ...

Ecologists tend to think of mobbing behavior as primarily a way that smaller birds protect their nests and chicks from larger predators. Shown here, a Willie wagtail attacking an Australian raven. Ray ...

Q. Why don't hawks fight back when crows mob them? They seem almost indifferent to the attacks, like one I saw yesterday. He just sat at the top of the tree as the crows dove at him. He didn’t budge.