A peculiar fossil has helped scientists discover an unusual bird that lived among the dinosaurs 120 million years ago, and the find is changing the way researchers think about avian evolution. The ...

In the depths of the Amazon rainforest, a strange song drew scientists to a new species of bird, the first of its kind ...

The Dickcissel was even more unusual. Goff said the midwestern bird that winters in South America was last spotted in Juneau ...

On Thursday, the Ohio Division of Wildlife, part of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, posted a "rare bird alert" to Facebook, announcing that an American avocet had been spotted at Deer Creek ...

In the summer of 1989, Jack Dumbacher was a fresh-faced ornithologist-in-training on his maiden expedition to the lush rainforests of Papua New Guinea. One sticky afternoon, he noticed an unusual bird ...

Birders are flocking to Scituate, Massachusetts to catch a glimpse of a tropical bird called a limpkin​, which has never been ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The rare Steller’s sea eagle made its way back to Maine last winter for the ...

“Vermont’s in for a little bit of a treat this winter,” said Vermont Fish & Wildlife’s Jillian Kilborn. The winter finch ...

The loss of these birds will lead to the unraveling or to the complete collapse of entire ecosystems. An adult male yellow-bellied sunbird-asity (Neodrepanis hypoxantha) in Ranomafana National Park, ...

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