She said in their 32 years of running the nonprofit that has rehabbed and saved thousands of birds, this is one of their ...

Scientists encountered five previously undescribed bird species during a six-week trip to three Indonesian islands, according to a new study. People like birds for more than just their appearances: ...

The terms “bird of prey” or “predatory bird” are most often used to describe birds that hunt and kill their prey – a species also known as raptors. But while all raptors are birds of prey, not all ...

Throughout the last two weeks, the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center has sent ornithologists to Lake Anne Elementary School to teach all grade levels about birds. An ornithologist is a scientist that ...

Once again, big data comes to the rescue … for identifying birds. A new app, Merlin, published by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology uses a database of 70 million bird sightings from the citizen-science ...

People have been fascinated by bird flight for centuries, but exactly how birds can be so agile in the air remains mysterious. A new study uses modeling and aerodynamics to describe how gulls can ...

People have been fascinated by bird flight for centuries, but exactly how birds can be so agile in the air remains mysterious. A new study, published Sept. 5 in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...