At a research station in the rainforests of West Africa, in an area that few people get to explore, a team surveying birds ...

A pair of exceptionally rare Cretaceous bird bones found at separate sites near Richmond, Queensland, reveal a previously ...

A new study has identified two species of Brazilian birds, the bare-throated bellbird and the red-legged seriema, as the ...

Migratory birds face growing threats from habitat loss, climate change, and other pressures, but conservation efforts offer ...

New research says that 610 bird species have died off over the past 130,000 years. For instance, the Kaua’i ’ō’ō, a Hawaiian songbird, was declared extinct just last year. The recent research also ...

Anatomy is key: birds use a specialized vocal organ called a syrinx, which projects air from the lungs through a long trachea, which functions like a trumpet. The loudest species, including North ...

The bare-throated bellbird and the red-legged seriema both make a racket above 120 peak decibels — louder than chainsaws and jackhammers.

It's difficult to know what birds "think" when they fly, but scientists in Australia and Canada are getting some remarkable new insights by looking inside birds' heads. Evolutionary biologists at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you ever wondered how many birds make Southwest Florida home, or visit for a winter pit stop? The bird lovers of Manatee ...