20-year-old Tasmanian George Vaughan had three main goals for his trip to the United States last month: see a…
A 52-million-year-old fossil found in Wyoming is now the earliest known seed-eating perching bird in the scientific…
You may be familiar with the aggressive behavior of the northern mockingbird, found throughout most of the United…
Edwin Scholes has taken dozens of bush plane flights, helicopters and boat trips, and spent countless hours hauling…
Ten hut, Gizmodo readers! Do you have a New Year’s Resolution you should be working on? Do not answer that rhetorical…
Climate change seems to be leading to more fatal conflict between a pair of bird species, according to a new study. The…
In the future, cyborg birds may help monitor ocean currents and help ground-truth satellite data. It may sound like an…
With their elongated bills and specially adapted tongues, hummingbirds are built to extract nectar from flowers. As new…
Since taking up birding in earnest, I’ve started noticing the birds that appear on Christmas merchandise like…
New scientific results have strengthened the case that the ubiquitous northern cardinal could be two species of bird or…
The world’s oldest wild bird, Wisdom the Laysan albatross, has once again returned to her breeding grounds, and she has…
A Pennsylvania birder spotted the bird of a lifetime in his backyard this past spring—it was a hybrid of three species…
Hot Duck mania has gripped the internet. It’s sent birding twitter atwittering, and the New York City news media seems…
An island half the size of Manhattan in the south Atlantic Ocean is so isolated, it’s called Inaccessible Island. On…
Dinosaurs laid colorful eggs. Birds lay colorful eggs. You do the math.
You walk alone through a foggy forest with nothing but your day bag and binoculars. Birds and insects call quietly as…
Birds and planes are a bad combination, but it’s not so easy to shoo our avian friends away from airport runways.…
In an oddly poetic act, moths will on occasion drink the tears from the eyes of a sleeping bird. Sounds harmless, but…
Madagascar’s history contains some truly enormous animals, from giant lemurs to giant tortoises. The island was also…
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