Northern cardinals, blue jays, American robins, and house sparrows are common birds throughout city life. These small, ...

Birds come in a wide variety of colors. Some feature relatively dull plumage, while others sport brightly colored feathers.

Millions of years ago, long-legged, big-beaked, meat-eating “terror birds” stalked the Americas. The imposing creatures ruled the roost as top predators of their ...

“Many of them didn’t stop anywhere in between Iowa and northern South America. That was surprising to ... monitored water bird activity the past two summers at Lake Red Rock, about 25 miles southeast ...

Here, thousands of birds, like the Red Knot, congregate each winter after ... an atlas of the Nearctic shorebirds that wintered in South America. They flew over the entirety of the coast of ...

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird—which they say could be the largest known member of its ...

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