A kelp gull (Larus dominicanus)—a seabird species typically found in the Southern Hemisphere—has made an unlikely home on a warehouse roof along the coastline of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, astounding ...

Despite its tiny stature, the smallest bird native to North America can survive cold nights in the Rocky Mountains, and some ...

A Comanche-led conservation project takes on an increasingly urgent mission: protecting the birds revered by many tribes ...

While mature birds subsist on seeds, berries and other foods, 96% of terrestrial North American birds feed their chicks insects—mainly caterpillars, the larval state of moths and butterflies ...

Now that the Prince Creek Formation is "one of the major North American Cretaceous bird sites," according to the researchers, Wilson says the next step is simply to find more fossils. "The more bones ...

John and his daughter Caitlyn are birders. As they witness the changing seasons and the shifting patterns of bird migration, they also confront their own personal transformations, revealing deeper ...

Vitro Architectural Glass is introducing BirdSmart Bird Safe Glass, its first proprietary glass product designed to reduce bird collisions.. BirdSmart Bird Safe Glass is a first-surface laser-etched ...

The American Woodcock (Scolopax minor), a.k.a. Timberdoodle, is a migratory game bird in the shorebird family Scolopacidae. Its appearance is distinctive — a plump body, short legs, a large ...

In December 1900, Frank M. Chapman, the first curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History, proposed the idea of the Christmas Bird Count (CBC) in an article in his magazine Bird ...

Andrew C. Vallely does field-ornithology work for the American Museum of Natural History; he’s become friends, by way of bird-watching, with Jeffrey Yang, an editor at New Directions Publishing.

After years of delays, White Bird will finally be debuting in North American theaters. The World War II-era film, starring Helen Mirren and Gillian Anderson, shows the dangers of being Jewish in ...

Billions of birds are flying south for the annual fall migration, including 4.7 billion leaving the U.S. alone, bound for Mexico, Central and South America. Sadly, over the past 50 years, North ...