While birds probably began nesting in the Arctic even earlier than 73 million years ago, the fossils are the oldest traces of this behaviour found to date. They push back the record of this in ...

In winter, birds experienced on average a whopping 3.7-degree Celsius increase in temperatures over the 20 years, reducing their potential exposure by only half a degree via their movement north.

James Gentz has seen birds aplenty on his East Texas rice-and-crawfish farm: snow geese and pintails, spoonbills and teal. The whooping crane couple, though, he found “magnificent.” These ...

A rare bird that escaped from Cougar Mountain Zoo in Issaquah has been captured. The missing bird, a juvenile East African crowned crane, escaped its enclosure Wednesday. KIRO-7 TV reports a ...

A disturbing avian mystery is unfolding in a Northern California town where residents have reported birds "exploding." Residents of a neighborhood in the Bay Area community of Richmond, northeast ...

We’re all used to seeing birds like pigeons on city roads, parrots that talk, or eagles flying high in the sky. But the bird world is much more surprising than it seems. Across the world, from ...

Why birds migrate at night. A large majority of North America’s migratory land birds, about 80%, are nocturnal migrants, Yoerger said. There are some birds, such as Blue Jays, that will migrate ...

Superb starlings help care for the offspring of birds they are not related to. “To me, that sounds like friendship,” one scientist said. By Asher Elbein True friends, most people would agree ...

As worries grow about the potential for a bird flu pandemic, leading virologists warn there's a rising threat from H5N1 and recommend steps to lower the risk. IE 11 is not supported.

The birds lay several sets of eggs in the course of a summer, and mowing can prove fatal to the young. “They’re crunching up lots of baby bobolinks, and other grassland birds,” Pollock said.

As the H5N1 bird flu virus mutates and rapidly spreads through American cattle herds — a first for the U.S. — doctors and veterinarians are fearful that if the virus is left unchecked, it ...