Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young. The same was true 73 million years ago, according to a new article. The ...

A spat between birds at a backyard birdfeeder highlights the sometimes fierce competition for resources that animals face in the natural world, but some ecologically similar species appear to coexist ...

Rich data on the global state of our feathered friends presents plenty of bad news—but also some bright spots. Researchers know better than ever how to help them. By Emily Sohn/Knowable Magazine ...

Scientists track birds with electronic tags and radar to solve flight mysteries. In answering ecological questions, the research findings may also improve infrastructure planning Feathers mark birds ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. We never know exactly when it’s going to happen, but every year there’s a ...

Just about anywhere you look, there are birds. Penguins live in Antarctica, ptarmigan in the Arctic Circle. Rüppell’s vultures soar higher than Mt. Everest. Emperor penguins dive deeper than 1,800 ...

Over the past months, I’ve periodically covered the strange extravagance of birds in various dimensions: the fastest birds, the biggest birds and the smallest birds, for instance. Considering the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. House Finches are so common, one tends not to pay attention to them. But, when I saw this male at the top of the world with a very ...

An illustration of Cretaceous Period birds with other dinosaurs from the same time period in the background. A paper in the journal Science documents the earliest-known example of birds nesting in the ...