When Lynn Westcott works from her home in Snyder, New York, she likes to work in the living room.

A study shows that rainfall controls tropical bird breeding by triggering the growth of plants and insect populations.

In 2014, Felicity Newell joined the Florida Museum of Natural History as a doctoral student, then promptly left the country ...

Every year, billions of birds undertake intrepid journeys between temperate regions in North America and their tropical wintering grounds in South America. "Birds are great indicator species of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A golden bowerbird in Queensland, Australia. - sohnjoo c 2013/imageBROKER/Shutterstock From the ...

A brightly colored tropical bird turning up in snowy Maine might sound like a rare treat for birdwatchers — but experts say it's a troubling sign of how rapidly wildlife behavior is changing. In late ...

Research teams studying bats and birds gather in Panama’s Soberanía National Park to celebrate the launch of a long-term census of bats designed to complement the bird census, which will celebrate its ...

LAMONT, Fla. (WCTV) - A burst of color, the sound of wings overhead and the unmistakable hum of life in motion await visitors at Tropical Treasures, the North Florida Wildlife Center’s brand-new ...

In preparation for a presentation on the birds we saw while in Ecuador recently, I was struck by how many of the birds were extravagantly colored, many eye-poppingly so. Thumbing through my field ...

The Little Rock Zoo announced this week that it had closed its Tropical Bird House to the public in response to confirmed cases of avian flu in Faulkner and Prairie counties amid a nationwide outbreak ...

(CNN) — From the rainforests of Central and South America to the savannas of northern Australia, the world’s equatorial regions are home to thousands of unique bird species, from macaws to toucans to ...