At first glance, the great potoo hardly looks like a bird at all. Perched upright on a broken branch, it can resemble nothing ...

Many birds survive the night by burning through their reserves. We’re doing something similar. Here’s how to stop living on ...

Birds that are active during the day sing later into the night in places with significant light pollution, according to research by a Southern Illinois University Carbondale professor and his ...

A series of sharp cracks splits the nighttime air in a forest in the Andean foothills. But this isn’t the sound of boots snapping twigs underfoot. It’s a bird. Nightjars are largely nocturnal, ...

Millions of birds invisibly migrate through the night sky each autumn, most flying in near silence toward their wintering grounds. Now, scientists have developed a way to see and identify many of ...