Hummingbirds are on the move back to the United States after spending the winter in Mexico and Central America. Here's how close they are to you.

Australia is renowned for its biodiversity, and you might be surprised by the variety of native birds and wildlife sharing your neighbourhood, even if you are living in an urban area. There is a range ...

Species named after techno-funk duo Chromeo could be key to understanding how a small group of dinosaurs survived extinction ...

The Southeast U.S. distinct population of the wood stork is no longer a federally-endangered species. In the 1970s, the estimated population of wood storks had fallen to only 4,000 to 5,000 nesting ...

Recently there have been fascinating discoveries about the evolution of great tit song. Researchers at a long-running research project in Wytham Woods near Oxford found that great tits of a similar ...

From whale songs to lion roars, animals have evolved to stretch their voices across distances so that friends—and sometimes foes—can hear them. Each sound is coded with messages like "Come here!" ...

SC lawmakers' recognition of the prothonotary warbler not only highlights this bright yellow bird but also the importance of protecting its swamp habitat here.

Researchers discover how woodpecker skull geometry keeps powerful pecks stable, allowing the birds to hammer wood thousands of times safely.

The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, also found that developing animals, including embryos and nestlings, are particularly vulnerable to the negative impacts of ...

The town’s popular rookery may be running out of room. Eleven species of birds built 800 nests last year alone. ‘It’s so amazing,’ naturalist says ...

A groundbreaking Trinity College Dublin study reveals that some animals process visual information more than three times faster than humans.