Vulnerable birds deviating from migratory routes by up to 155 miles, which could affect breeding

A record number of sandhill cranes arrived in central Nebraska during the first week of their annual spring migration, likely lured by mild winter temperatures.

While some in Ukraine face the skies to watch for missiles and air defense, Vlad Hedzyuk lifts his binoculars looking for the flutter of wings. Hedzyuk, a biology student at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, is a member of Ukraine’s small but dedicated bird-watching community and has grown

Tests exploring how birds navigate gaps smaller than their wingspan shed new light on their ‘amazing abilities’

Birdsong is one of the most beautiful sounds on the planet, but did you know that those tweets and calls have a complex 'sentence' struture that could tell us a lot about the evolution of human language?...

The bright lights of big cities could be causing an evolutionary adaptation for smaller eyes in some birds, a new study indicates.

The Anhinga is commonly found in southeastern swamps so the bird’s increased presence in New Jersey is peculiar, experts said. Have you seen this devilish bird?

“Birds descended from theropod dinosaurs by the Late Jurassic, but our understanding of the earliest evolution of the Avialae, the clade comprising all modern birds but not Deinonychus or Troodon, has been hampered by a limited diversity of fossils from the Jurassic…...

While ravens do not occur in China's capital Beijing today, a new study analyzing fossil bird bones from the UNESCO World Heritage Zhoukoudian "Peking Man" site demonstrates that ravens lived in western Beijing at the same time as some of its famous ancient human inhabitants.

A team of paleontologists from the University of Canterbury has discovered a remarkably intact fossil of one of the earliest ancestors of a group of birds now restricted to the tropics. Tropicbirds, now represented by only three living species, have a long fossil record spanning at least 62.5 million years, with the oldest...

Here’s how newfound “spicy” birds resist their potent neurotoxin

The fossils from the Jehol Biota in China show us that very early in bird evolution they switched from predatory behaviors to using their wings to fly into trees so they could eat the fruits, seeds, and leaves of plants like so many species do today," said Dr. Li Zhiheng from IVPP, corresponding author of the study.

It’s a mystery that literally came out of the blue in Davis County—more than a dozen dead fish that somehow found themselves in a man’s backyard and on the roof of his shed....

(not seen but possibly heard: my quaker parrot son and cockatiel daughter making a ruckus and chewing on my pants leg off-screen)

Whales, bats and birds sound different depending on where they live. So do elk, according to new research.

In winter, the birds must remember where they’ve hidden tens of thousands of seeds. Biologist Vladimir Pravosudov explains what this can teach us about how the brain evolves.

Almost 200 bird species found to build nests with human litter, including cigarette butts, plastic bags and fishing nets

Yesterday was Echo's first day of not having to take Amphotericin B in a month. She was pretty sleepy but had a good appetite. I'll be keeping a close eye on her and watching for symptoms of avian gastric yeast. I'm going to try to convince her to take a bath today so that we get some of the yellow staining off her flufferchops.

Echo loves to visit the "other bird" in the bathroom when someone goes in....