The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is gearing up for Project FeederWatch, an annual project inviting participants in the United States and Canada to observe and report bird species.

Back in May 2018, I had the great opportunity to visit one of the leading and most interesting bird research organizations in North America: Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology located in Ithaca, New ...

The October 12th Big Day also succeeded in recruiting 748,000 birders for the job, and producing 66,000 photos for a ...

Birds like ravens and vultures seem menacing, but are they actually misunderstood? Here's why spooky birds deserve more ...

It’s been a big week for birds. BirdCast—a migration forecasting tool operated by Colorado State University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology—tracked a whopping 1.8 million birds passing over DC on ...

Eurasian collared-doves were sold as pet birds in another country, but some escaped and thrived in the wild. The Cornell Lab ...

With how many species of this familiar waterfowl live in or migrate through the state, you could say Virginia is for duck ...

This article was produced in collaboration with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and is part ... I have come to this steaming forest to find a bird. I’m starting to wonder if it’s worth it.

The greater roadrunner might not be the bird we typically think of around the Thanksgiving holiday, but it is here this time ...

New Cornell University research has found that, unlike birds, the evolution of bats’ wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as birds.

Each map shows county-level bird sightings by participants of Project FeederWatch, a citizen science program run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, from 2011 to 2023. 1. Common raven: This spooky ...