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

The humble turkey vulture plays a vital role in keeping the land clean and diseases at bay. It also acts like an avian ...

Within the bird world, there are some crazy adaptations. For instance, there are birds larger than a man that can kick a hole ...

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

California condor researchers track every rare survivor in the nearly-extinct species, and mourn the loss of a Colorado ...

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

Purple martins are migratory birds that breed in Wisconsin and winter in South America. The species relies on human-supplied ...

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

Roberta Bondar knew that she would not be able to hear birds, let alone seen them from space, but when she really thought ...

The Florida grasshopper sparrow was near extinction only a few years ago. The recent release of the 1,000th captive-raised ...

The world abhors cutting down the Amazon rainforest. But did you know that Saskatchewan’s native grasslands are a far more ...

In a new book, a curator at England's Natural History Museum describes rare and interesting nests and eggs—from the house ...