It was thought that birds gained an energy advantage by escaping cold winters, but new research has quashed that assumption.

The bird started swaying from side to side, which cannot be seen in a still photo, but what you can see is the fully-deployed feathers known as “undertail coverts.” A white-breasted nuthatch has black ...

We see birds flitting about the landscape when there is diversity. Around the world, habitat loss, invasive species, cat ...

Changing precipitation patterns in the Neotropics, one of Earth's most biodiverse regions, could threaten two-thirds of the ...

One of the most fascinating elements of observing birds is the phenomenon of migration. This is so alien to us that most ...

Newly Discovered Late Cretaceous Birds May Have Carried Heavy Prey Like Extant Raptors Oct. 9, 2024 — Newly discovered birds from Late Cretaceous North America were hawk-sized and had powerful ...

At one point in the not-too-distant past, winter’s lack of birds completely flummoxed some of history’s greatest thinkers. Just a few hundred years ago philosophers posited that birds buried ...

Bird migration has and continues to be one of the main lines of ornithological research. Birds employ a surprising variety of ...

Open door, SIlver Award Winner, Comedy Bird Photo category; An Eastern Screech-Owl leans out the ‘window’ of its home in Clearwater, Florida. The Bird Photographer of the Year has announced th ...

The pink wings of a roseate spoonbill drew birders and nature lovers from afar to Union Beach this week, but the bird's appearance also illustrated a growing trend -- that southern birds are ...

Some birds migrate thousands of miles every autumn. How exactly do they manage it? Scientists built a flight chamber to find out. Some birds migrate thousands of miles every autumn. How exactly do ...

On Friday, the musician released the video for “Birds of a Feather,” which watches the singer calmly dragged through an office building as she sings about her overtaking feelings. The Aidan ...