Less than two months into the new year, suspected avian influenza infections in wild birds have been reported in every county in the state, according to new surveillance data from the state Department ...

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Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many other great questions in her book, The Bird Watching Answer Book. (For the ...

Scientists discovered a moth that appears 3D despite having flat wings. Tiny structures on its wings reflect light that ...

Unique, colorful, musical and social, evening and pine grosbeaks are wild birds that tend to be wintertime visitors that we ...

In the dense rainforests of northern Australia and South-East Asia, a master of disguise flutters through the shadows. The ...

Veritasium visited the MIT Robotics Lab to see how researchers use the same mechanics as an insect for their miniature flying robots.

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Few people have seen the spruce grouse, with its have striking plumage: red combs like giant fake eyelashes on top of the ...

Hummingbirds are perhaps our best-loved birds, but there’s a lot that people don’t know about them. What kinds of ...

The American dipper, a drab-looking bird no larger than a robin, is a splashy rarity: a songbird that swims and even walks underwater. This round-bodied gray bird with short wings and a stubby tail is ...

Wading through a clear knee-deep tidal pool in coastal Florida, I was trying to move slowly, to avoid disturbing a gorgeous American oystercatcher napping on a small sandbar. Oystercatchers are ...