The early namers of birds also worked mostly with specimens. Hence names more appropriate for identification in the hand ...

An optical illusion challenges viewers to find a cleverly camouflaged bird hidden within a natural scene. The puzzle tests ...

Waking up to the dawn chorus of birds—one of the natural world's greatest symphonies—is a joy like no other. It is not ...

I never expected that an app for identifying birds would help me with mindfulness more than my meditation apps.

Most birds here can fly and have wings. But one is stuck on the ground and cannot fly. If you take a glance, your eyes will skip right past it. That is how the trick works. Your brain expects every ...

Birding is having something of a pop-culture moment. Uzo Aduba’s “world’s greatest detective,” from this summer’s Netflix hit ...

Researchers from FishEye Collaborative, a conservation-technology nonprofit, Cornell University, and Aalto University have developed a new tool that combines underwater sound recording and 360° video ...

When the urge to breed strikes in the spring or summer, a murrelet flies 30 to 40 miles or more inland. The parents take ...

The Delaware Birding Trail gives specific sites and explains why the state is a favorite for serious birders and why autumn is the peak time ...

From bustling towns to rural woodlands, turkeys seem to be everywhere these days. But despite being an undeniable ...

Capped Chickadee Look Like? Meet the black-capped chickadee, a beginner backyard birder’s dream. The small songbirds are ...

This year’s competition expanded to Chile and Colombia and introduced new prizes focused on migratory species, habitats and ...