The unusually warm fall is causing some migratory birds to extend their summer vacation in southeast Wisconsin rather than ...

Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...

Birds of a feather, as the old saying goes, tend to flock together, but what happens when a member of the flock stands out ...

This morning on my way to work, I saw two large herons fly overhead. It got me thinking about how this area of the Platte is ...

The Iain Nicolson Audubon Center in Nebraska, at Rowe Sanctuary, is one of the best places in the entire country to witness the migration of sandhill cranes.

The most dangerous bird species are also some of the most beautiful. These seemingly innocent creatures can pack a punch — or peck — that you definitely want to avoid.

The research team at New Mexico Tech has constructed and tested pheasant, mallard duck and pigeon drones and robots. Their ...

A common way ecologists predict population counts may be an unreliable way of forecasting future bird counts in urban areas, meaning scientists may be overestimating and underestimating the losses of ...

Analyzing a leg bone from a fossil site in Colombia, scientists have identified a massive “terror bird” that lived about 12 ...

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” — Albert Einstein Autumn, warm weather, bird ...

Up to 22 species of waterfowl can be found on Plum Island this time of year. The most common are the black ducks, mallards and gadwall. Also present this past week are American wigeon ... of Bill ...