Across backyards, campuses, rainforests and even aquariums, birds are changing in ways that are startling veteran researchers. From hybrid jays that should not exist to songbirds that reshape their ...

If you break open a chicken bone, you won't find a solid mass of white material inside. Instead, you will see a complex, ...

Behavior can confirm the ID when color is seen only in flashes. Vermilion flycatchers often hunt from an exposed perch, ...

Butterflies closer to the equator have been shown to evolve shared wing patterns faster than their relatives at higher latitudes. That gradient reframes tropical diversity as an active process, shaped ...

Take a peek into the always entertaining lives of birds, from intimate moments with mates to fierce fights for territory.

In the early 1990s, Keith Willmott and a friend, both undergraduate students from the United Kingdom, arrived in Ecuador with ...

Find out how the shape of a bird of prey’s wings will explain why they live where they live. Can you guess where a bird of prey hunts based on the shape of its wings? Major Funding by the Laura Moore ...

You can practically hear the sound of flapping and see birds flying off the page. A new year takes wing in this soaring Photo of the Week by Malcolm Denemark, FLORIDA TODAY senior photographer and a ...

A common nighthawk perches on a log in a soft crate at Iowa Bird Rehabilitation in Des Moines. A nonprofit that grew out of one woman’s basement in Des Moines rehabilitates thousands of wild birds ...

Nikki Ikani receives funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for her WARN project (with project number VI.Veni.221R.093). She is also working on her first trade non-fiction book based on her ...

There's an unwritten rule in publishing, or so I've been told: Don't write about COVID. Our collective attention span has been saturated by those endless months holed up in attics and cramped corners ...

You can attract birds to your yard by providing food, water, and shelter. Use separate feeders for different seeds to reduce waste and competition among birds. A birdbath should have a gradual slope, ...