This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In February 2024, dairy farmers in the northwest corner of the Texas ...

Sky-high egg prices have drawn renewed attention to the bird flu outbreak, which has caused more than 166 million wild and domestic birds in the U.S. to die since it began in 2022. While the ...

Birds have remarkable ways of finding feeders that combine keen senses with social learning and memory. That first chickadee discovering your brand-new feeder isn't just random luck—it's the result of ...

The song of the chingolo can be heard across South America. But young songbirds were no longer learning the tunes of their elders—until scientists stepped in. A rufous-collared sparrow ...

A microscope image of H5N1 avian influenza. Credit: CDC and NIAID Bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has been circulating across North America since 2022, infecting birds, livestock, wildlife, pets, ...

“In this photo, I’m monitoring gulls near Sandgerði, a small fishing village in southwest Iceland. This area is a volcanic peninsula, and although there’s a lot of precipitation, most of ...

For more than a century, scientists believed that a fossil of a winged dinosaur from the Jurassic Period discovered 160 years ago in Germany represented the earliest birds. Now, researchers have ...

We independently review everything we recommend. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more› By Hannah Morrill Hannah Morrill is an editor covering gifts and beauty.

Birds breathe in dangerous plastics -- and so do we A study finds high levels of microplastics in bird lungs, raising alarms about the pollution humans inhale daily Date: February 27, 2025 Source ...

When you think about adopting a bird, budgies and cockatiels are often the first species that spring to mind – but did you know that there are many types of pet birds? Taking care of pet birds isn't ...