You may have noticed that almost every species of passerine bird has a particular method of flying. Woodpeckers (including ...

More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ostriches, and kiwi birds. In a new study in the journal Evolution, researchers ...

Peaking during weeks like this one in September and October songbirds stream south on overnight flights, shorebirds and raptors move by day, and waterfowl build up on wetlands as freezes creep south.

A 56 million-year-old fossil bone helps explain how this (mostly) flightless family of birds spread to so many different ...

The next few weeks mark the peak of bird migration season, a biannual natural phenomenon when hundreds of millions of birds journey across the continent, primarily at night. Scientists are calling on ...

ATLANTA — Take one morning this week to sit outside and enjoy your morning cup of coffee or tea. If you listen and reflect, you'll hear a chorus of songs. Some of those songs may be from year-round ...

Each year, birds set out on their annual spring migration, traveling to their summer feeding grounds. This time of year is when local birds that went south for the winter return, or when birds that ...

Along with breaking the hearts of avian lovers, this unfortunate trend could have major ramifications worldwide. Roughly 5%of ...