A Comanche-led conservation project takes on an increasingly urgent mission: protecting the birds revered by many tribes ...

Despite their luminescent glow, lightning bugs have remained a conservation mystery until relatively recently. Now ...

Bird lovers can enjoy peaceful time near Shimla in places like Kufri Chail and Mashobra where colorful birds live in forests ...

I woke up before 4 a.m. and got right out of bed. I wasn't sick and I wasn't giving up on any more shut eye after one of those inexplicable nights of tossing and turning. I did it in the name of ...

A red-capped manakin will moonwalk better than Michael Jackson in a lek of others when it wants to attract a female mate.

The System will help bird species to be identified by taking input only the sound of that bird.The framework also offers tools for translating such annotations into datasets that can be used to train ...

Walking through a dark misty forest in Madagascar, a team of scientists followed a “distinct” chirping sound to its “secretive” source. The calling creature had “large” hands and “long” legs. It ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have ...

In the last column, I wrote about birders "chasing a bird," which means going out of our way to see a rare or unusual bird. I ...

A new atlas catalogs nearly 11,000 bird names, revealing their origins, meanings, and the surprising stories behind how birds ...

The Center for Biological Diversity has filed suit against U.S. government agencies for failing to release public records on plans to land rockets at Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.

There are thousands of species of birds, and many of their names are well-known to us—blue jay, robin, and mallard, to name ...