For more than a hundred years, scientists believed flying reptiles called pterosaurs took to the air with birdlike brains. Old fossils seemed to show it. Hard stone casts inside skulls hinted at big ...

Discover the origins of the name "John Crow" in Jamaica, the bird’s role in Jamaican culture, and how it inspired the naming ...

Big game attracts many hunters to the West, but the region is also home to some of the country’s best upland bird hunting.

Millions are spent to clean up after the birds and to install spikes and nets to keep them from fouling transit stations and bridges. Are birth control pills next?

After years studying wild birds in the bush, Flinders University experts have described a new call type frequently used by one of Australia's favorite birds, the superb fairy-wren.

Y et another barrage of bad luck has struck the last remaining Spix’s macaw in the wild. A significant number of the ...

An unusually early outbreak of bird flu cases affecting high numbers of wild birds and poultry farms across Europe and North ...

Modern researchers know about the cuckoo’s cross-species brood parasitism – but one Roman emperor observed this more than 700 ...

Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt created the character’s high-pitched, electronic chattering by combining his own voice and ...

After a Western Washington resident became the first human to contract a rare form of avian flu, you may be wondering if ...

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, R2-D2 beeped and booped—and now birds that copy the Star Wars character are giving ...

A Grays Harbor County resident has tested preliminarily positive for avian influenza in the first human case recorded in Washington state this year. The resident, an older adult with underlying health ...