The beauty is in the bird itself, the way its wings slice through the air with the grace of a dandelion gone to seed, touched ...

California condors – known scientifically as Gymnogyps californianus – are imposing vultures. They’re the largest bird ...

The Motus Wildlife Tracking System has put nearly 50,000 incredibly lightweight radio transmitters on birds, bats and insects ...

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

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

About the size of a blue jay, it is the smallest hawk in North America. No matter. Sharpies use their short, powerful wings ...

By late September, our summer birds have almost entirely left and our winter birds have begun to arrive: Fall migration is in ...

As they prepare for fall migration, hummingbirds need to fatten up for their long journey to Central America or Mexico.

This month’s issue covers the reasons it’s so hard to go back to the moon, the science of empathy and new advances in ...

This National Virginia Day, learn how Smithsonian scientists are using historic collections and current conservation ...

Flocks of northern nesting birds have raised their families and are now, or soon will be, headed to warmer wintering habitats ...

The H5N1 virus, initially restricted to Eurasia and Africa, has since spread to North and South America and even reached ...