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Since the 1970s, the U.S. has lost billions of birds. We now know that those losses aren’t just growing – they are accelerating in places with intensive human activity, particularly where agriculture ...

Several weeks ago, I wrote about the importance of bird tails. Then I realized how birds’ beaks or bills, as well as their feet, are also used in various ways. Most birds we see at our feeders are ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. WASHINGTON — Billions fewer birds are flying through North American skies than decades ago and their numbers are ...

YOU CAN ALSO LOOK UP UPDATES ON THE WEATHER WATCH 12 TEAM. LET’S GET TO THE BIG STORY TONIGHT. BIRD FLU INFECTING CHICKENS AT A JEFFERSON COUNTY FARM. >> SO THIS HAPPENED AT COLD SPRING EGG FARM IN ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Billions fewer birds are flying through North American skies than decades ago and their population is shrinking ever faster, mostly due to a combination of intensive agriculture and ...

An unassuming metal barn erected recently at the southern edge of the University of California, Davis campus houses some advanced video technology for a uniquely UC Davis project. Leveraging UC Davis’ ...

Larry Bird should have been excited about attending Indiana University in the late summer of 1974. The man who had recruited him to come there, Dave Bliss, had been chasing him for more than a year, ...

John James Audubon yearned to paint birds in Hot Springs; the environs of Spa City were also the laboratory/home of one of the South's most distinguished ornithologists. Today it has been the site of ...

Counting bird species is no longer enough. To truly understand and support avian urban biodiversity, we must look beyond simple species richness to capture the functional roles, evolutionary histories ...

Hundreds of geese have reportedly died in New Jersey, and bird flu is suspected to be the culprit. More than 1,100 dead or sick wild birds — almost all of them Canada geese — were reported between Feb ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships among birds: the illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny ...