World Migratory Bird Day celebrates bird species across the world who travel far and wide, spending precious resources to ...

Killdeer are probably the most recognizable shore birds in America. This is due in part to where they live. Rather than live on ocean beaches and salt marshes, they prefer ...

Typically, mammals give birth to live young. However, three unusual species defy this norm. Scientists are intrigued by the ...

A research team has created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all bird species, integrating data from hundreds of studies ...

It is finally spring and the birds are super busy. They spend the day gathering small twigs, bits of plastic, and other construction materials to build their nests. Birds, when ...

The Pelagornis belonged to the family Pelagornithidae. These birds existed from the Late Paleocene age to the Late Pliocene ...

Tami Gingrich explains the devastation house sparrows cause and highlights strategies to protect bluebirds and other native ...

Most readers are likely familiar with the widespread great blue heron, which is regular across New Brunswick in marshes and ...

A shared shape rule, the power cascade, governs most bird beak growth. It links modern birds with extinct dinosaurs.

"Get off my lawn!" Funny as a meme but maybe scary in real life, this short sentence is synonymous with an elderly man ...

Swallows are summer migrants from Africa to Ireland, arriving here in spring and departing in autumn. If the weather is good ...

Research reveals a hidden mathematical rule, known as the 'power cascade', that governs the growth and shape of beaks in birds and their dinosaur ancestors. This rule illustrates how beaks evolved ...