The immature male king eider has its own distinctive look, with an orange bill and white breast. Because of its rarity, many ...

While it's tragic and alarming to see a massive die-off, it's not uncommon for birds that travel in such large populations.

The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.

The egg industry and an industry-leading duck producer have both taken a crack at using the viral Australian summer lamb advertising campaign to push their own protein ahead of Australia Day.

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...

Spectacled Eider is a Near Threatened seaduck that breeds only in high latitudes on the coasts of Alaska and eastern Russia. The species winters exclusively ... Drakes are easily separated from Common ...

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Two duck hunters scouting a wooded area in rural North Carolina ended up finding human remains, authorities said Tuesday, in the latest grim discovery made by hunters in recent months. The human ...

On our count this year was a king eider in Gore Bay ... The most common sighting this year was the common merganser at 1,040 individuals, one of the 11 species of ducks reported on this count. The ...

A rare spectacled eider (Somateria ... in the Bering Sea where the species normally congregates among the ice floes. “Someone must have cancelled its flight,” birdwatcher Elian Hijne, who was the ...

Specimens have large eyes and claws, as well as smooth bodies. The species comes in two color forms: Blue form crayfish are a dark hue with orange joints and tails, while purple form crayfish are ...