The sounds of grey herons at nest during day and at night are like a fairy-tale monster or someone getting sick!

Common Waxbill: This cute little bird with brownish-grey bodies has an adorable red beak. African Swamphen: This large water ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

Uncover the secrets of Costa Rica's night herons. From their roosting habits to their hunting techniques, the black-crowned ...

A chaffinch's song lasts about three seconds and is repeated; it starts with buzzing notes, slows, descends into a jumble, ...

Bird watchers are flocking to southwest Kansas to see a rare bird of a species generally found only in Siberia, Greenland, ...

Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.

Air mail delivery is an essential part of modern life. The history of this unique invention goes back farther than you might ...

FREEPORT, Maine — The American Birding Association has named its 2025 bird of the year, and it's a bird Mainers are quite familiar with. This year's winner is the common loon. "Loons are big, they're ...

People traipse cross-country to see clouds of kites, or to catch a glimpse of a golden eagle in its highland home, and webcams fixed on the nests of ospreys, owls and peregrine falcons draw huge ...