Imagine zooming out on a giant family tree that includes every bird you have ever seen. Ostriches sprint across open plains, ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships among birds: the illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny ...

Providing a welcoming habitat for birds in winter is as easy as planting cold-hardy trees that will provide much-needed ...

An ambitious genetic analysis of deep avian history strongly supports some counterintuitive ideas about bird evolution that differ from the species groupings familiar in field guides. Falcons are more ...

Researchers from Yale, Cornell and Florida State University released an updated and highly comprehensive evolutionary tree of birds last Wednesday in the journal Nature. The focus of the research was ...

From gulls to grouse to grackles, more than 10,000 bird species live on this planet. Now, scientists are one step closer to understanding the evolution of all of this feathered diversity. An ...

High in the canopy of a Neotropical Panamanian forest, researchers have discovered that birds, especially native ones during the rainy season, protect trees by reducing the numbers of leaf-eating ...

Every spring the SPCA Monterey County Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center rescues hundreds of baby birds, many of them ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Bird feeders are fun and engaging additions to your yard and garden. They allow you to supply a source of food for different kinds of birds to ...

Coffee grown under a tree canopy is promoted as good habitat for birds, but recent University of Delaware research shows that some of these coffee farms may not be as friendly to our feathered friends ...

A new woodland of more than 8,500 trees has been created in Lancashire to attract wildlife and protect land around a reservoir.