Identification: As its name suggests, the black-headed ibis has an all-black head with a white body and black legs. These ...

a professor of English and linguistics at Indiana University. By 1425, texts like The Siege of Jerusalem solidified Turkey as ...

The Bird Photographer of the Year award has been ... Here is a selection of the pictures that were awarded a gold, silver or bronze, with descriptions by the photographers. "This Peregrine Falcon ...

These birds also lend their name to a colorful flower. South Africa's bird-of-paradise (Strelitzia reginae) is a member of the banana family. It sports a beautiful flower believed to resemble the ...

Say goodbye to Bachman’s Sparrow, Scott’s Oriole and Townsend’s Warbler. Those three birds are among a half-dozen that will get renamed first under a plan by the American Ornithological ...

The birds of today descended from the dinosaurs of yore. Researchers have known relatively little, however, about how the ...

The iconic Birds of Prey World Cup race finish venue at Beaver Creek received the new name to recognize the Arnold’s “transformative contribution to the non-profit in support of ski racing in the Vail ...

Steller's jay, Cooper's hawk, Anna's hummingbird - all of these bird species and dozens more could get new names. That's because the American Ornithological Society has vowed to change the English ...

Don’t just stop to smell the roses — make sure you listen to the birds and look at the trees, too. A new study out of Carleton University has shown that living in neighbourhoods with a higher ...

But to date, few names taken from a language of Australia's First Peoples have been widely applied to birds. About 2,000 Australian bird species and subspecies occur in Australia and its territories.

And we had heard from people that the name was a barrier ... that some of his engraved images were frauds. Audubon, in his seminal 1827 pictorial guide “The Birds of America,” painted ...

On Thursday, a major birding society will discuss how how to go about changing potentially offensive bird names. There's resistance to the... Birders argue over plan to change dozens of bird names ...