With its bright golden mantle and jet-black body, it would be hard to mistake the yellow-headed blackbird for any other ...

A new push for more oil and gas drilling, mining, and logging threatens irreparable damage to irreplaceable habitats.

"The birds we rear and release are not only surviving, but they're also displaying normal social behavior." Researchers ...

The northern shrike is the size of a songbird... but your feeder birds need to watch out! Here's how to identify this unique ...

Are you looking for the best hikes in Alaska? You are in the right place! I visited Alaska on a recent hiking group trip and enjoyed hitting the trails every day!

Other birds undertake even longer journeys—the Swainson’s thrush, for example, nests as far north as the boreal forests of Alaska and spends ... These head-on collisions frequently result ...

Inside a chilly enclosure, a 7-year-old peregrine falcon named Breland plucked at a frozen rat carcass with her beak, tearing off patches of fur and flesh with little head jerks until finally ...

In 2002, he and his postdoctoral adviser, the comparative-cognitive scientist Nicola Clayton, compared black-capped chickadees captured in Alaska with birds from ... it’s mostly head, so it ...

A marine heat wave has killed approximately half of Alaska’s common murre population ... Common murres, or Uria aalge, are known for their distinctive black-and-white feathers, resembling ...

It was not only the largest bird die ... Common murres, black-and-white seabirds that somewhat resemble penguins in appearance, are among the most plentiful seabirds in Alaska.

It would take years of study to confirm they had witnessed the largest die-off of any bird species ... colonies in the Gulf of Alaska and the Eastern Bering Sea. These black-and-white seabirds ...