Flocks of birds manage complex social lives with a kind of effortless coordination that many humans struggle to match. By ...

Migratory birds that fill North American forests with spring songs depend on Central America’s Five Great Forests far more ...

The Health and Medicine Division (HMD) is a division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies). The National Academies are private, nonprofit ...

A November hailstorm killed over 1,800 water birds on Shamrock Island, providing scientists with rare data on climate change ...

A professor from the University of Illinois Springfield has played a key role in helping to increase the osprey bird ...

Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears.

How can we monitor the cross-species transmission of avian flu? The answer is FluWarning, a digital system that reports ...

The first update to a local State of the Birds report in 14 years shows restoration working—and some puzzling declines.

Birds understand many sounds around them, from mates to alarms, and this hidden skill may hint at how human language first ...

There’s nothing quite like the simple joy of watching colorful birds flock to your backyard feeder. But then, a familiar foe ...

Since recorded history, people have looked to nature for knowledge. Today, the study of animals, insects, and plants has led ...

For decades, scientists have known that only a few groups of birds—songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds—can learn to produce ...