Light pollution, or artificial light at night (ALAN), is a widespread phenomenon in areas with dense human populations.

Ornithologists at UCLA and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County are recruiting volunteers for Project Phoenix, a ...

The birds, famous for their distinctive "poor, bob-white" morning calls, had nearly vanished from Maryland after declining ...

The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima is believed, by some estimates, to have killed as many as 146,000 people, once injuries, ...

Sue Tomte has identified a remarkable gull phenomenon. Between August and November, about 2,000 to 4,000 gulls land on Fish ...

Jason Weckstein cranks open one lane of the massive movable storage unit holding one of the world’s 10 largest collections of ...

Ornithologists are seeking volunteers in California, Oregon and Washington for Project Phoenix, a multiyear project exploring ...

Birders in Ithaca can expect flocks of fellow bird enthusiasts to swarm alongside the Cayuga Bird Club for the New York State ...

If we don’t invest in technologies like mRNA vaccines for pandemic influenza now, once a virus starts going human-to-human, ...

"Infections among mammalian species in frequent contact with humans should be closely monitored," the researchers stated, per the University of Minnesota. "Domestic cats are susceptible to [avian ...

Migratory birds are some of nature’s most efficient travelers, able to cross oceans and continents in a matter of days or ...

A male northern parula perches on a tree branch. Note the black and chestnut band across the chest. Females often lack this ...