Q: I recently had a flagstone patio installed in my backyard. I love the patio, but I also love having my bird feeder, so the flagstones are covered with bird poop. I routinely take down the feeder at ...

Bird poop: not a topic most people take interest in. However, fascinating discoveries are being made from the feces of one slowly disappearing bird in the U.K. Researchers are analyzing pied ...

It turns out that streaked shearwaters, a large species of seabird, are not unlike children. Just as children seem to inevitably need a bathroom break two minutes into a car ride, the birds poop ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock As humans have spread and traveled around the globe, we have also brought other species with us.

Scientists find that streaked shearwaters poop every four to ten minutes in flight—a strict schedule that doesn't apply when they're sitting on the water's surface. Yusuke Goto It turns out that ...