Photos posted to Facebook show a massive crowd ... nesting from Alaska to the Caribbean to Peru, according to the American Bird Conservancy. It is distinguished by its yellow plumage, with males ...

Study Finds That Birds-of-Paradise Are Biofluorescent Research suggests that "hidden" phenomenon provides enhanced signaling for hierarchy and courtship.

You can look at (but can't touch) one of the original engraved plates from The Birds of America in the Treasures gallery above ... Find out how the Museum’s traditional artworks and images made using ...

Birds are vertebrate animals adapted for flight. Many can also run, jump, swim, and dive. Some, like penguins, have lost the ability to fly but retained their wings. Birds are found worldwide and ...

Along the long road from American icon to endangered species and back again, the bald eagle — the national bird of the United States, often seen against a clear blue sky — is having a moment.

Last week while leading a photo workshop in warm and sunny Florida, I was walking down a long stretch of beach with my group of photographers in tow. The sun had just come up spreading a warm ...

The eagles find themselves in an environmental updraft of sorts since the early 2000s, when the federal government took the ...