One hundred years after Libby's first participation in Audubon's Christmas Bird Count the 2025 count became notable for more ...

Because their feet are not adapted to process prey items, shrikes carry large items to thorny vegetation and/or barbed wire ...

A pigment that makes feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells.

What do Wilson’s bird-of-paradise, the red-necked tanager, and the keel-billed toucan all have in common? They are all ...

The UK's largest finch, which was once thought to be locally extinct in the county, has been spotted in South Herefordshire.

In the spring of 2023, we returned to Península Valdés, a rugged coastal region in Argentine Patagonia, expecting to witness the familiar sights and ...

Birds are some of nature’s most beautiful creatures — but a few of our feathered friends are truly bizarre — like these 25 ...

Your perception of pigeons is wrong, these Australians say. Their lives revolve around them — but their worlds couldn't be ...

The researchers came across this discovery through the use of picocam, a 3D-modeling technology that Mansfield developed, ...

The Arctic Skua is a seabird that is polymorphic for dark, intermediate and pale phenotypes of plumage. The melanic, dark and intermediate males can find mates sooner in the breeding season than the ...

Bill Danielson recounts a fleeting winter encounter with a yellow-bellied sapsucker, capturing a few unforgettable photos and ...

A mixture of anxiety and excitement coursed through Keanini Aarona in the weeks before five Hawaiian crows, or ʻalalā, were ...