Tucana is a constellation of stars in the southern sky, named after the toucan, It is one of twelve constellations conceived in the late sixteenth century by Petrus Plancius from the observations...
Huītzilōpōchtli is the Aztec God of the sun and war. The name translates as Left-Handed Hummingbird. In the Aztec mythology Huītzilōpōchtli defends his Mother from...
Why does the dove represent peace? It probably stems from a series of Sumerian legends and poems about the mythological hero-king Gilgamesh in the 7th...
In the early sixteenth century the first Europeans to see birds of paradise believed they were magical creatures from heaven. Having travelled half way around...
Amazingly some songbirds purposely miss out certain pitches of tone which results in them vocalising musical scales know to humans. Some musicologists believe that birdsong...