Feathered friends bring many benefits to our outdoor space, but the types of birds you might see in your backyard will depend ...

Our newest contest category delivered a bounty of beautiful—and birdy—scenes for the judges to choose from. Here are some of ...

These Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest images celebrate our feathered friends Text by Tracy Scott Forson Photographs ...

Migration already has been heavily altered by building and development and the loss of green spaces along the major migratory ...

In a new book, a curator at England's Natural History Museum describes rare and interesting nests and eggs—from the house ...

Long restricted to Florida, the large wading birds have begun popping up across much of the United States and as far north as ...

Carole Turek; Tim Laman; Federico Rios for The New York Times; Karine Aigner; Ernie James; Tim Laman/Nature Picture Library, via Minden Pictures ... The other two birds in North America are ...

While several North American ... out as the only birds that are truly green. Unlike other species, turacos owe their color to a copper-based pigment called turacoverdin. The common grackle ...

A traveling exhibition migrating to St. Petersburg tells the story of famous naturalist John James Audubon and the creation ...

So the idea of crossing boundaries without passports is something that I feel as an astronaut I had in common with birds ... up in the mid-1940s in North America, there really only about 16 ...

That America ... and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and they invoked the NATO alliance far more often than Republicans did. One area several Democratic and Republican speakers had in common ...

Unique to Bondar's approach, she uses space-based imagery to provide the context for her ground and aerial photos as she tracks ... an astronaut I had in common with birds. cS: How did that ...