Birds-of-paradise have captivated the planet with their elaborate plumage and idiosyncratic mating dances. Some species ...

From Alaska across southern Canada all the way south to Tierra del Fuego — the southernmost point of South America — ...

Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the chicks somehow manage to find their flock and ...

The film explores the diverse ways in which various bird species raise their young, highlighting the differences between ...

The birds, famous for their distinctive "poor, bob-white" morning calls, had nearly vanished from Maryland after declining ...

There are more than 1,200 members in the Santa Clara Valley Bird Alliance, where birders are turning a hobby into a lifestyle ...

Altricial birds generally have two nests each summer containing about four to six eggs each. They do have fewer eggs than precocial birds but they offer the young better protection in the nest.

A new study led by Cornell Lab of Ornithology researchers at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics shows that monitoring and managing select bird species can provide benefits for ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of ...

Animalia 75 percent of North America’s bird species are in decline, study says Birds are rapidly vanishing from North America, with dramatic population losses in places that were once thought safe.

It's what ornithologists call an altricial bird: a species that hatches completely helpless, so adults can spend less energy making eggs and more energy raising offspring. The thrush I'd found on the ...

Itanagar: Seven new species of migratory birds have recently been sighted in the Ziro Valley of Arunachal Pradesh. The birds were sighted during the ‘Ziro Bird Walk', organised by a team of ...