A 56 million-year-old fossil bone helps explain how this (mostly) flightless family of birds spread to so many different ...

Engineers in the U.K. are taking cues from one of nature's most skilled aviators — the owl — to design smarter, more agile ...

Ahead of painter Robert Rauschenberg’s centennial this fall, a new book details how he was fueled by looking to the sky ...

Blue and Gold Macaws (and Macaws in general) are one of those incredibly smart parrot species. Not only can they be trained ...

A delicate but exquisitely preserved skull of a crow-sized bird with a scythe-like beak that inhabited Madagascar 68 million years ago is showing scientists that they have a lot of learn about avian ...

I took my first serious bird tour in September 2005. That was a monthlong trip through northern Peru with Manu Expeditions and the legendary Barry Walker. I had knocked around Mexico and made a few ...

Large clusters appearing on weather radars are likely massive flocks of migrating birds, not storms. A record-breaking 1.2 billion birds were estimated to be migrating in a single night during the ...

Have you ever been startled by a bird that suddenly greeted you with a “hello” or even a complex phrase? The ability of certain bird species to mimic human speech has fascinated us for centuries. This ...

When a threatened species rebounds, it’s usually an unequivocal conservation success. When it comes to Snow Geese and their habitat-destroying ways, it’s complicated. On a soft stretch of tundra, ...

HONG KONG — Critically endangered yellow-crested cockatoos found an unexpected sanctuary among Hong Kong’s towering skyscrapers, but like their human neighbors they now face trouble finding a place to ...