Explore an interactive avian tree of life that reveals how 11,000 bird species are connected through millions of years of ...

Birds across the planet share a learned warning cry that may echo the origins of language itself. Bird species that live thousands of miles apart and diverged millions of years ago are using ...

Avian malaria is spreading across Hawaiʻi in a way scientists didn’t fully grasp until now: nearly every forest bird species can help keep the disease alive. Researchers found the parasite at 63 of 64 ...

Decades of cognitive research reveal that parrots can understand what numbers represent. Here’s how these birds use them to ...

Avian enthusiasts around the world will identify and count birds from February 13 through February 16 as part of a massive ...

We like to think that animals follow the crowd. If most of the group does something, surely the individual will copy. But what if the story is more complicated? What if the deciding factor isn't just ...

On the day before the Atitlán Christmas Bird Count (CBC) in western Guatemala, the group chat created to coordinate the event ...

The tooth-billed pigeon, which is sometimes referred to as “the little dodo” of the Pacific, is a variety of fowl indigenous only on the islands of Samoa. For more than a decade, it was also thought ...

Deadly H5N1 bird flu has now claimed its first confirmed wildlife victims in Antarctica, killing more than 50 skuas. More than 50 skuas died in Antarctica during the summers of 2023 and 2024 after ...