Bigger bodies and wider beaks help birds like the bare-throated bellbird belt out calls louder than a jackhammer, but why such volume evolved remains unclear.
Measuring 123 species, biologists found two new contenders for loudest bird, and learned that bigger birds with wider mouths are louder.
Flyways once connected continents for billions of birds, but those ancient routes are turning into gauntlets of habitat loss, ...
A new book, 'Be More Bird,' helps us find our own way to fly. Novelist and falconer Candida Meyrick on how nature inspires profound navigational wisdom.
Learn how migratory birds travel vast distances, why flyways matter, and how conservation is helping protect them.
For more than 2,000 years, scientists have scratched their heads over one of the most basic mysteries of the natural world: ...
On a remote speck of land in the middle of the Pacific, a single seabird has quietly rewritten what scientists thought they knew about aging in the wild. At roughly 75 years old, the Laysan albatross ...
Birds have, for centuries, been captured from the wild to be kept in cages—valued for their looks, songs and ability to imitate sounds. Data compiled by the Convention on International Trade in ...
As ancient, hollowed trees disappear in England, one researcher and his team are engineering prosthetic nests to provide an alternative home for endangered birds. Filipe Salbany, conservation lead at ...
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