Birds of a feather flock together and -- according to a new analysis -- so do their lice. A study of the genetic heritage of avian feather lice indicates that their louse ancestors first colonized a ...

Dec. 8, 2003 – University of Utah biologists twirled louse-infested bird feathers on an electric fan and flew pigeons and doves like kites on strings in a study that found small lice stick to small ...

Although chewing lice spend their entire lives as parasites on birds, it is difficult to predict patterns of lice distribution, new research reveals. Although chewing lice spend their entire lives as ...

Writer Christopher Norwood sat down with Ornithologist Jason Weckstein for this edition of "So Birds are beautiful, with their colorful feathers, graceful flight and sweet songs. But what about the ...

Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 84, No. 3 (Sep., 1976), pp. 159-165 (7 pages) From 25 to 30 sense organs are present on each antennal flagellum of a female bird louse, ...

The British Museum of Natural History was in grateful receipt last week of a strange new gift—500,000 Mallophaga, the world’s leading collection of bird lice. The donor of the collection is ...

A team of scientists found multiple relatively old mitochondrial lineages of Spectacled Tetrakas living in the same location, making them suspect multiple species had merged back into one. Scientists ...

LOS ANGELES - The lowly louse may have a more impressive pedigree than once thought: Dinosaurs may have hosted the parasitic bugs, a study says. The findings, published Tuesday in the journal Biology ...

A co-op in the Academy of Natural Sciences' ornithology department has allowed environmental science major Abigail Del Grosso to more deeply explore her interest in birds. She shares her more about ...

Parasites are a fact of life for birds, for good and for ill. But don't worry – they're not after you. In 1933 a man named Harold Peters contacted bird banders in the eastern half of the country. He ...