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The risks that Helen Oyeyemi takes in her fifth novel, “Boy, Snow, Bird,” are astonishing in their boldness. “Nobody ever warned me about mirrors,” begins the narrator, Boy, a pale white girl in ...

If you're in need of a little extra magic in your life, try harnessing it by summoning all sorts of fairies to your garden and home. Entice the enchanting creatures by creating a fairy village filled ...

Boy, Snow, Bird reimagines the traditional Snow White fairy tale. Helen Oyeyemi's new novel explores beauty, envy and identity in New England in the 1950s — race and skin color shape the characters' ...

Scientists show how two different species of Australian fairy-wrens not only recognize individual birds from other species, but also form long-term partnerships that help them forage and defend their ...

Cuckoo birds have evolved a nasty habit of laying their eggs in the nests of other bird species, who then unknowingly tend to their young. But as new research published in Current Biology reveals, the ...

Ettore received funding from the Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment and the Ecological Society of Australia. Anne Peters receives funding from the Australian Research Council Discovery Program. One ...

Just when you think Japan has more than enough adorable mascots and characters, one has stolen the spotlight. Bird watching is a popular pastime in Japan as diligent conservation efforts and the ...