DEAR JOAN: I am concerned about a small bird that has been flying into and pecking at my window. He began at 10 a.m. Sunday. I originally thought he flew into the window by mistake. It appeared ...

Next time you fill your feeder, look more closely at the birds that show up and answer the following question: What’s the pecking order? As many of us noticed over the years, North Jersey is one ...

The birds are famous for their pecking abilities. Photograph by Glenn Bartley, Getty Images The force applied during pecking is "distributed around the skull to the sturdy bone at the base and the ...

Armed with a database of almost 100,000 bird interactions, experts known as ornithologists have decoded that secret pecking order and created a continentwide power ranking of almost 200 species ...

As birds flock to feeders and compete with each other for seeds, a group of ornithologists have discovered that the feathered creatures follow a pecking order. Citizen bird watchers across ...

It’s a bit authoritarian by our standards, but the pecking order – in which each bird has a rank in the top-down hierarchy of the flock – is the way in which chickens govern themselves. The pecking ...

Teenagers aren’t the only ones with a pecking order: research shows that birds at the bird feeder follow one, too. Though a feeder seems to promise a first-come, first-served meal, in reality ...