Swiss voters are casting final ballots on Sunday on a proposal to increase protections for the Alpine country's cherished ...

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

The concept, or perhaps conceit, of an author organizing a wealth of knowledge into a comprehensive explanation of world ...

Birds, for the most part, do not live in nests. These complex structures, sometimes meticulously assembled for more than a ...

Common swifts are expert aerial acrobats, spending much of their lives in the air. These birds can fly at speeds up to 106 mph, using their speed and agility to catch insects while flying. The ...

A southern cassowary chick hatched in the UK, making it only the second one of its species to have hatched on European soil.

It’s noisy, smelly, shy – and New Zealand’s bird of the year. The hoiho, or yellow-eyed penguin, won the country’s fiercely ...

In Kansas, in a beige shipping container tucked between a hay barn and a cattle pasture, one of the rarest tropical birds in the world is getting a second chance to soon fly free. It’s about as ...

In a decline not seen since the DDT era, the spectacular raptors have noticeably decreased in numbers over the past two years ...

Bird flu has been spreading in dairy cows in the US—and the scale is likely to be far worse than it looks. In addition, 14 ...

Although it’s the shortest of the world’s flyways, the Central Asia flyway is used by more than 600 migratory bird species. It also covers 30 countries, ranging from the cold of Siberia in the north ...

September will soon be drawing to a close. The kids are back to school, and those of us in the Northern Hemisphere are ...