With All Hallows Eve rapidly approaching, I thought it was high time to explore the spookier side of birds. Specifically, ...

Birds are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs, not crocodiles. Modern birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs. They ...

To find out, Elena Tena, a biologist at Doñana Biological Station in Seville, Spain, and her colleagues attached ultra-light ...

The idea was that wolves, in the absence of hunting, ceased to perceive humans as a threat and felt encouraged to approach ...

If you have heard a woodpecker pecking away at your gutter or home this fall, it may not mean you have insects in your wood. Connecticut is home to seven species of woodpeckers that live in forests, ...

It's the peak of the fall migration season. This is when bird deaths from window collisions tend to spike, even though simple solutions can prevent this.

The April 2024 total solar eclipse caused some birds to believe that a new day had arrived, prompting them to burst into song, a new study found.

The findings of a new study about communication between birds also offer key insights into the origins of language.

New Zealand’s annual Bird of the Year competition has crowned an unexpected victor: the Kārearea, or New Zealand falcon. The bird is a formidable predator known for its hunting prowess. It beat a ...

Although owls are always watching us, you might have trouble spotting them, unless you know exactly when and where to look.