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 ...

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

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

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

Birds-of-paradise are known for their bright colours and courtship displays. Now, it turns out that many species also have ...

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

We have a natural fascination with time—how landscapes have been carved over millennia, how our bodies grow and sag with age, ...

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

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

Hummingbirds are perhaps our best-loved birds, but there’s a lot that people don’t know about them. What kinds of ...

“For nearly 250 years, we called the bald eagle the national bird when it wasn’t,” said Jack Davis, co-chair of the National ...

Driving on Vermont’s interstate highways in winter, I often notice large hawks perched in trees on woodland edges at regular intervals along the road. With the stark landscape providing better ...