Have you ever tried to balance on one leg? While some yoga masters make this move appear simple, it’s not as easy as it looks ...

Maine Audubon's Laura Minich Zitske tells us the eastern phoebe is most easily keyed out by its long, wagging tail - which ...

Longer and taller than a double-decker bus, with a narrow crocodilian snout, a giant sail on its back, and a paddle-like tail ...

It had feathers and wings, so it was clearly a bird — but it sported a long tail and sharp claws, which seemed reptilian. A smattering of other feathery Jurassic fossils, including those known ...

including a long bony tail and elongated legs. Its lower legs were twice as long as its upper legs. In addition, it had forelimbs similar to a bird’s wing, but with the addition of three clawed ...

The essential parts of a bird to look at in relation to this are the beak, legs, wings, and tail. Is the beak thin like a blue tit's, or thick like a greenfinch's? Are the legs short or long ...

During a pre-Fourth of July paddle around Long Tail Point, bird monitor Jack Swelstad of Green Bay spotted something at the end of the island. "I found two piping plovers that acted like they were ...

The summer heat is pushing Cooper's Hawk babies out of their nests early. Here is what you need to know about the birds.

Bird — or birdlike — fossils from the Jurassic period are relatively rare and often incomplete. Despite Archaeopteryx’s feathered wings, it closely resembled non-avialan dinosaurs, notably due to its ...

A fossil from China that’s 150 million years old may be the world’s earliest known bird. The discovery shows that the short tails characteristic of modern birds evolved much earlier than ...

Long-tailed tits must be up there for an award as our most cute little birds, and especially so for the young fledglings. When they leave the nest, the babies will often line up together on a tree ...

In this clip from Iolo's Secret Life of Birds(December 2010 on BBC One Wales), Iolo Williams studies a nest being built in woods at Newtown near Powys. Long tailed-tits will hide their nests well ...