The vast majority of birds are diurnal, meaning that they are active during the day and sleep at night. Truly nocturnal ...

When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived ...

Discover 7 amazing birds that can talk like humans, from African Greys to Hill Mynas. Learn how these intelligent species ...

While modern birds lack enamel teeth, some species exhibit tooth-like features. Geese use serrated ridges called tomia to tear grass, while penguins p ...

As climate change drives earlier spring conditions in the Arctic, bird species that travel there to breed there are under ...

The researcher’s team analyzed a robust online database called eBird, which collects more than 100 million bird sightings by ...

Millions of birds are getting ready to fly over and stop by Kansas this fall as they complete their long-distance fall ...

As millions of birds migrate south from and through Michigan, a digital migration map offers the chance to track their path in real time through radar.

Zipf’s law of abbreviation explains how commonly spoken words tend to be shorter. The idea is so intuitive, birds appear to ...

Robin Hammond's photographs show the conservation battle to eradicate three species introduced to New Zealand, in order to ...

Arctic-breeding birds speed migrations to match earlier springs, but this adjustment may only work temporarily.

Typically considered exceedingly rare in birds, a new study in Australia found sex reversal rates up to 6 percent for some ...