Every year, billions of birds undertake intrepid journeys between temperate regions in North America and their tropical ...

Radar data from Colombia reveals how tropical winds shape bird migration and pose new challenges for conservation.

For more than a century, the Bird Banding Laboratory has placed small metallic bands on the legs of birds across North ...

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

The virus, which scientists call H5N1, has spread like wildfire around the globe in recent years, surprising and horrifying ...

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

The results of a survey conducted in January 2024 and February 2025 show growth in the whooping crane population.

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

North America’s largest and most urban double-crested cormorant colony shows how people can share space with an unfairly ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

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

Many Native Americans are marking ceremonies like graduations with bald eagle feathers, a form of reverence for the bird they ...