Explore the colors of songbird migration in a photo essay that displays the ways distance and timing affect plumage. In late summer and autumn, millions of birds fly above our heads, often at night, ...

Think telling sparrows apart is just not worth the effort? Our tips might change your mind. Identify sparrows by habitat, ...

A study explores how birds rearrange feathers after flights through gusts and foliage. The durability of bird feathers is evident in the ease with which birds preen and repair ruffled feathers using ...

“I will keep a chicken in my studios," said the renowned South Carolina bird carver Grainger McKoy. The artist was examining one of his wooden roosters on display in "Recovery in Flight: The ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

FORT HUACHUCA — Whenever Wezil Walraven wants to answer a bird's song, he reaches for his iPod. He'll flip through the playlist until he finds a song that matches, and then he'll play it back via a ...

Simon Griffith receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Birds are perhaps the most colourful group of animals, bringing a splash of colour to the natural world around us every day.

The heat this summer has been brutal and now things are getting dry too. I have had a few scattered downpours at my house but the area really needs some prolonged rainfall. At times like this ...

WHEN I was a small boy, a friend presented me with some very ancient bantams — quite past egg-work. Another friend fitted me out with some pigeons; but the latter were new to life and soon began to be ...