As migration peaks this May, the changing journeys of the world’s birds reveal real strain on the natural systems vital to ...

Madagascar is home to some of the world’s most unique flora and fauna. And, up until about a thousand years ago, it was home to the world’s largest known bird species. Meet Madagascar’s legendary ...

Birds, by design, tend to be small, light and streamlined. Yet there are some that push the boundaries of size. Here is the avian world’s best example of an ultra-heavyweight flyer. Birds of prey are ...

Here & Now 's Robin Young visits the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ahead of Global Big Day on Saturday — a big day for birders.

The migration of birds from their southern wintering grounds to their breeding grounds in the north is in full swing ...

This February, more than one million people around the world stepped outside to observe and report birds as part of the Great Backyard Bird Count, marking a new record for the number of participants ...

The three high-school birders, dubbed The Pete Dunnelins, have one day to count as many bird species across the state of New ...

On this planet, birds have captured our attention due to all the unique things they can do with their bodies like flying long ...

As ancient, hollowed trees disappear in England, one researcher and his team are engineering prosthetic nests to provide an alternative home for endangered birds. Filipe Salbany, conservation lead at ...

"Birds of the World, a powerful new resource that brings together scholarly content from four celebrated works of ornithology--Birds of North America and Neotropical Birds (originally published by the ...