Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at ...

The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at ...

Lesser goldfinches feast on the seeds of weedy, invasive plants such as thistles and dandelions, which are abundant in the ...

Birds-of-paradise have captivated the planet with their elaborate plumage and idiosyncratic mating dances. Some species ...

Birds are among the most intelligent and talkative animals in the entire world. Their babbling, chatty, and loose-lipped mimicry has inspired various stories from across all human cultures. However, ...

Tompkins County in New York State is arguably the best birded county in North America. Cornell University, with its Cornell Lab of Ornithology located there in Ithaca, has produced numerous ...

In this Earth Matters column, Robert Miller says the gray fox, blue-winged warbler, Jefferson salamander and bog turtle are ...

This protected Mid-Atlantic salt marsh remnant, the last one in Boston, has recorded an astonishing 271 species of birds.

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza ...

Colossal Biosciences, the startup that brought back the dire wolf, is now focusing on New Zealand's giant moa.

The team is "here to stay," no matter what, lead researcher Keith Bowers said, amid federal funding changes for scientific ...