Crossing continents and oceans, birds rarely stay in the same place their whole lives, and their epic fall migration will soon be hard to miss for many North Americans. Migration is the best ...

An animal behaviour lab built inside a converted barn uses motion-capture cameras to track the movements and behaviours of entire flocks of birds or swarms ... is still too small to study animal ...

The least flycatcher (Empidonax minimus), a small North American bird, is facing mounting challenges as climate change alters its migration patterns. Recent studies reveal that these birds are ...

A small, round fidgety member ... managed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. More: Swarms of birds will fly over the US soon. Explore BirdCast's new migration tool to help you prepare.

Avian research often focuses on forests as breeding habitats, but scientists are working to understand the role that small forest patches play in migration — a vital portion of a bird’s lifecycle when ...

They eventually travel as far south as northern Venezuela. During their migration, the small birds normally stop for the night in the cavities of dead trees, but due to the changing landscape and ...

I looked up on the last day of July at the sound of purple martins, and instead of a swirling flock of feeding birds ... their migration. Eastern phoebes will be present in small numbers through ...

People often wonder about the link between dinosaurs and birds. Here you can learn about how, over millions of years, evolution forged small, flight-capable birds with feathers and wings from ...

Ehmann said there are more small things you can do to help bird migration. Adding stickers or ribbon to windows and sliding doors can help prevent them from colliding with it. She said people can ...

Now one of the questions is: why are North American grassland bird populations shrinking? Is it something happening on their breeding grounds, on their southern wintering grounds, or at stopover ...