birds

This past autumn, people all across the U.S. southwest were finding an astounding number of dead birds littered…

And why, pray tell, is that unfriendly-looking creature the only way you have of escaping? Also...what or who are…

Ever wanted to become a teen raven and join a gang of birds? Well, now you can in this exclusive look at one of the…

Aeronautical engineers have built planes that can streak across the sky at over 4,000 miles per hour, but still…

Amber fossils are like a time capsule, preserving the three-dimensional structure of animals, plants, and other…

Although your first instinct when you see these photos might be, “Oh god,” we promise that it’s not an upcoming…

A conservation group has tracked a migration for the ages, in which a male bar-tailed godwit flew from Alaska to New…

Some birds are gifted with shockingly long lives. In captivity, crows can live into their 50s. Certain parrot…

While social distancing measures have pushed many people into sexless, joyless bubbles, San Francisco birds are…

The most famous name in American ornithology is that of a slave owner, grave robber, and fraud who invented birds…

Since this year hasn’t been spooky enough, thousands of migratory birds are now dropping dead across the Southwest.

The most commonly used pesticides in the world have been a disaster for bees. But new research shows they’re also…

Put in some headphones, close your eyes, and let chill jams and tropical endangered birdsongs transport you to the…

The world’s largest soaring bird—the Andean condor—can stay aloft for 5 hours and cover more than 100 miles of real…

For the first time in nearly 50 years, California condors have returned to Sequoia National Park. The National Park…

Over the years, Festo, a German automation company with a penchant for robots, has designed countless Mother…

A new bird song is spreading like wildfire among Canadian white-throated sparrows, at a scale not seen before by…

After a racist white lady called the cops on a black man who was birdwatching in Central Park last week, the black…

The covid-19 pandemic has forced a delay to an effort to protect vulnerable seabirds from large, invasive mice on an…

A few years ago, I stopped being afraid of birds and realized that, actually, I really liked them. It just clicked…