On a summer night just before sunset on the summit of Mount Mansfield, biologist Nathaniel Sharp and a crew of volunteers are getting ready to try to catch Bicknell’s thrush. “If you even give, like, ...

A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude, from the nanoscale to the meter ...

OREGON, USA — Seeing birds along the Oregon coast is nothing new, but what a photographer captured a couple of weeks ago is something nobody has ever seen in North America: a rare bird that typically ...

TORONTO, July 23, 2014 – Migratory songbirds are disappearing, and though conservationists are examining several possible reasons such as climate change, loss of habitat, acid rain and light pollution ...

They say it's the quiet ones that surprise you. Maybe that's because flashy individuals spend their time getting noticed, whereas the wallflowers of the world have time to think up novel approaches to ...