Male Japanese quails produce a strange seminal foam that appears to enhance the chances of successfully fertilizing an egg.

Mark Brazil's 'Birds of Japan' will be a birders' Bible for the foreseeable future and fills the niche for anyone who plans to search out the wealth of birds that this country has to offer.

Japan’s worst bird flu outbreak on record spread to new farms and now affects more than 20% of the country’s 47 prefectures, with officials ordering cullings after more poultry deaths.

Japan's outbreak last month killed thousands of chickens at a farm in Yamaguchi prefecture, the country's first case of bird flu in 79 years. No link between the Oita and Yamaguchi outbreaks has ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Birds' Nests in Japanese Houses ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 54 No. 25 (June 1886), p. 393 doi:10.1038 ...