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 ...

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 ...

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

The Northern Mockingbird, Texas's state bird since 1927, contrasts sharply with the endangered Attwater Prairie Chicken, now down to 200 in the wild, best seen at the Houston refuge.

Its lower leg bone – the tibia – was twice ... After Archaeopteryx – a crow-sized bird with teeth, a long bony tail and no beak whose fossils were first found in the 19th century – there ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 early evolution of birds has long been a mystery due to the limited ... Most remarkably, Baminornis had a short tail ending in a pygostyle – a fused bone also found in modern birds.