All South Korean airports were ordered to install bird-detection cameras and thermal imaging radars after the Jeju Air crash ...

Columnist Bill Danielson explores the challenge of identifying individual birds and the rare moments that make one stand out ...

This version of the virus is circulating broadly in wild birds and is different from the virus that has been causing dairy ...

The bald eagle has been a symbol of our nation’s strength since the Revolutionary War, but it was not made our national bird until recently. The bald eagle is emblematic of America and on coins, bills ...

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

The Nicobar Islands are a biodiversity hotspot, home to unique species found nowhere else. Long isolated, these islands have ...

A single gene in the shorebird species known as ruffs controls the levels of testosterone in males, and this in turn affects ...

Use expert tips and a helpful chart to improve your hawk identification skills. Plus, learn about the common types of hawks ...

Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many other great questions in her book, The Bird Watching Answer Book. (For the ...

Similarly, most living things produce records of their own existence in layered body tissues – often in the form of daily or ...

The sounds of grey herons at nest during day and at night are like a fairy-tale monster or someone getting sick!

Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.