Lightweight and sophisticated tracking devices have made it possible to study the behavior of birds in all kinds of useful ways, for example, helping keep them safe from ships or monitoring their ...

Australian magpies that were attached with tiny, backpack-like tracking devices for a study showed “seemingly altruistic behaviour” by helping each other remove the tracker, according to a new finding ...

When we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies for a pilot study, we didn’t expect to discover an entirely new social behaviour rarely seen in birds. Our goal was to ...