After observing thousands of records over decades, researchers found that birds of a feather may actually stick together during the annual migration ... Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National ... songbird migration routes, for instance, or species demographics and the reasons for a population’s decline—that help bird conservation.

Neonics—pesticides introduced to plants at the seed stage—act like an appetite suppressant for birds, making them lose weight within hours. White-crowned sparrows like this one are among the ...

Photograph by Karine Aigner, National Geographic In the wild ... help volunteers monitor the birds’ health and migration habits. It sometimes takes weeks of rehabilitation to strengthen the ...

Millions of birds will be in the skies near you this week. Late April starts peak spring bird migration for South ... Elizabeth Weise is a national correspondent for USA TODAY based in San Francisco.