Have you ever seen a bird that looks like it’s walking on water? That’s the jacana. This unique creature is often called a lily trotter or even the Jesus Christ bird because of its uncanny ability to ...

When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird biologists didn’t know what they were looking at. The day-old bird, smaller ...

An adult coot can recognize its own chicks and will attack a parasitic chick that hatches in its nest. Photo by B. Lyon. The American coot is a drab, seemingly unremarkable marsh bird common ...