Unlike birds whose plumage is mostly blue, the green coloring of a green bird’s feathers is primarily a combination of pigment and structure, not just a trick of the light. These birds’ emerald green, ...

For more than a century, the USGS program has revealed crucial insights about where birds go, how they’re faring, and what we ...

The birds barely stood still, but we spotted Yellow-rumped and Wilson’s Warblers and Western Tanagers. They were working fast ... Imagine flying between rainforests in Central America and your ...

The tanagers are a large family of brightly coloured species, restricted to the Americas, particularly tropical South America. They are very diverse family of sparrow to starling sized birds which ...

There are thousands of species of birds, and many of their names are well-known to us—blue jay, robin, and mallard, to name ...

Previous research has shown birds frequently eavesdrop on other bird species to glean information about potential food ...

Scientists announced the discovery of a new species of early tyrannosaur in a museum vault in Mongolia, an ancestor to ...

Ancient fossils from Alaska reveal birds nested in the Arctic 73 million years ago, challenging previous assumptions about ...

Quail in the thousands and pheasants in the tens of thousands are incubated, hatched, raised and marketed each year at ...

The paper documents the earliest known evidence of birds nesting in polar regions. Each spring, the Arctic comes alive with the sounds of chirping and the arrival of fluffy hatchlings, as millions of ...