Making a list of birds with a long tail isn’t as straightforward as it seems. For example, the peacock is not on the list.

The Shima Enaga, also known as the Japanese snow fairy, is the bird that looks like a flying cotton ball.

If you love birds as much as I do, you may be captivated by their vibrancy of colors, their range of sounds (whether sweet like those of songbirds or booming like the bittern), their ability to fly ...

Peacock tails are just one example of how evolution walks a line between favoring traits that make it easier to survive, and traits that make it easier to find a mate. In a new study, scientists have ...

From falcons that dive at record-breaking speeds to swifts and geese that dominate level flight, here are the fastest flying ...

With two brightly feathered macaws perched on his hands, their long tails brushing against him, Albi Albar Ramli balanced on ...

Birds differ widely in the shape and size of their tails, yet until recently nearly all attempts to understand this morphological diversity have focused exclusively on the role of sexual selection for ...

The result of New Zealand’s Bird of the Year contest has some critics crying fowl. That’s because the winner announced on Monday wasn’t a bird at all but the long-tailed bat, or pekapeka-tou-roa. The ...