When it comes to building nests, birds use a wide variety of tactics and materials. Some birds, like the puffin, burrow into ...

When wood thrushes arrive in northern Mississippi on their spring migration and begin to serenade my neighborhood with their ...

The western meadowlark is Wyoming's state bird.

Birds are rapidly vanishing from North America, with dramatic population losses in places that were once thought safe.

Black swifts, with their preference for nesting on steep, wet, cold rock faces, are among the most enigmatic birds in North America ... of amateur bird-watchers like Hurtado, biologists in ...

Bird populations across North America are falling most quickly in areas ... changes to the environments around us. The birds are like the canary in the coal mine,” she said.

Get ready to say goodbye to a lot of familiar bird names, like Anna's Hummingbird ... the official English-language names for birds in North America since 1886. Occasionally, bird names have ...

Oldest-Known Birds of Prey Lived Alongside T. Rex in North America By Will Dunham WASHINGTON ... "The morphology that would equip an animal for raptorial-like behavior has likely evolved multiple ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - In western North America during ... for raptorial-like behavior has likely evolved multiple times," Clark said. Until now, the oldest-known birds of prey date to ...