The great egret, a majestic yet stressed bird, strides through the city streets with an air of desperation.Its snow-white feathers, typically a vision of elegance, now appear dull and ruffled, a ...

Tufi’s coastline is often compared to Norway’s fjords, but that’s before you feel the heat and the dancing and drumming begins.

Water birds have limited means by which to deal with the wind and rough water. If the winds are too persistent, the birds may ...

This year's frequent snowfalls have uncovered an unexpected advantage on the Bowman farm. Fox tracks leading to a drainage ...

Much like how the colors in our landscapes change from season to season, you may have also noticed a shift throughout the ...

This small group of people, seven participants and four Conservancy members, had gathered at the Brooklyn Bridge Park in the ...

The Science and Art of Avian Flight.” Bird flight is a mesmerizing spectacle, yet its intricacies remain largely shrouded in mystery. Even after more than a century of study, certain aspects of bird ...

The Eastern Meadowlark (Sturnella magna) is a grassland species most common in the fields of Central Kentucky. It is ...

The referred specimen of the enantiornithine bird Shangyang sp. (IVPP V 26899) was recovered near La-Ma-Dong Village in Jian-Chang County, within the Jiufotang Formation (dated ∼120 Ma). It can be ...

Fossils are providing more and more clues about how dinosaurs attracted one another and reproduced, which contributed to ...

Seen as harbingers of death and disease, staples of horror films and Halloween decor, vultures actually play an important ...

IN ANCIENT ROME “bird seers” were priests, or augurs, who delivered prophecies based on their observations of birds. The right combination of bird ...