Australia and the rest of Oceania are the last regions free of the highly pathogenic strain of bird flu that has caused mass mortality in birds across the world and a massive outbreak in dairy ...

When humans want to move fast—barring speed-walking competitions—we pick up our feet. But when birds need to get somewhere quickly, they tend to always keep one foot on the ground, leading to ...

The Bird Photographer of the Year award has been announced, with Canadian photographer Patricia Homonylo scooping the top prize for her thought-provoking image titled When Worlds Collide.

At one point in the not-too-distant past, winter’s lack of birds completely flummoxed some of history’s greatest thinkers. Just a few hundred years ago philosophers posited that birds buried ...

These lessons were designed to accompany the first two parts of the PBS Life of Birds series. Although this lesson plan was developed primarily for grades 9-12, teachers of elementary or middle ...

These colors distinguish them as some of the world's most dramatic and attractive birds. Males often sport vibrant feathered ruffs or amazingly elongated feathers, which are known as wires or ...

The story of the disappearance of dinosaurs is a famous one. Less familiar is the tale of the dinosaurs that were left behind. What is it about birds that allowed them to survive when all other ...

This year’s Bird Photographer of the Year competition winners offer us both a celebration of avian diversity and human creativity as well as a window into our evolving relationships with these ...

Today, it is in London’s Natural History Museum, the oldest piece in a collection of more than 5000 bird nests. “That nest is a small encapsulation of the environment of Rio de Janeiro in 1768 ...

Newly Discovered Late Cretaceous Birds May Have Carried Heavy Prey Like Extant Raptors Oct. 9, 2024 — Newly discovered birds from Late Cretaceous North America were hawk-sized and had powerful ...

Bird flu is spreading in cattle herds in the US in a surprising development that's worrying scientists. There's no evidence the virus can cause a human outbreak, but authorities are keeping a ...