Sacramento County deputies seized hundreds of birds, some of them with severe injuries, from a large-scale bird fighting ring ...

Learn what a killdeer bird looks like and sounds like. Get facts about their nests, eggs and songs, and see their range map.

Breeding adult: pale gray upperparts; black wing tip with white ... also suggest a first-winter ring-billed, but is much larger (not always easy to judge on lone birds) with stouter bill, dark ...

A study shows that bird wings play a huge role in shaping biodiversity on islands. Birds’ flight abilities influence species ...

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Bird wing shape — a proxy for long-distance flying ability, or dispersal — is a trait that influences biodiversity patterns ...

The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office discovered more than 200 birds being used in a bird-fighting operation near Herald.

But a bird wing is vastly more sophisticated than anything ... erupt from tiny patches of skin cells called placodes. A ring of fast-growing cells on the top of the placode builds a cylindrical ...

If you look up Rodrigues in satellite images, you can see a huge ring of submerged land ... solitaire Leguat described how the birds used their short wings to make a loud rattling sound that ...

The shift from birds to gold rings and then back to birds again in ... this large wading bird “hurls himself about on his broad wings in his frenzied nuptial dance, displaying his aerial ...