The numbers tell an impressive story. Beloved US bird known for distinct morning call makes incredible comeback after years ...

Whether a pet budgie or cockatoo, birds are not naturally aggressive. When they suddenly bite or shriek, they’re trying to ...

Cancel culture is coming for the birds. Starting in 2024, 70 to 80 North American bird species boasting English names will be renamed. The American Ornithological Society (AOS), a group born out ...

Twenty years ago, I wrote an article about my cousin Brenda’s country garden in Bognar Regis in Sussex, England. Like many ...

“Birds are my eyesight,” said Ms. Glass, a poet and a professor of English at West Valley Community College who has been blind since birth. “When I check into a hotel in Pittsburgh, ...

It is not the first effort by the AOS to change bird names associated with racism and slavery. In 2020, the AOS renamed a songbird found in the Great Plains to the thick-billed longspur.

By 2020, concerned birders had started an initiative called Bird Names for Birds, partly in response to the Central Park incident, to urge ornithological groups to reconsider names that ...

It takes all my self-discipline to adhere to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s admonition that I hang my bird feeders only from December 1st through March 31st, to ...

An English major might find it sacrilegious to even try, but singing an Emily Dickinson poem to the theme from "Gilligan's Island" is known as sort of party game. Indie pop musician Andrew Bird ...

A person dresses up as a bird on the red carpet of Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson's movie, 'Die, My Love,' at the Cannes Film Festival.

Avian influenza also referred to as bird flu, is a viral illness that primarily affects birds and rarely infects humans. It spreads through saliva, nasal secretions, and faeces of infected birds.

Bird ended up composing an original, less jaunty melody to accompany Dickinson’s words. "I got kind of engrossed in this particular poem. That first line — 'I felt a Funeral, in my Brain' — just grabs ...