Raptors are birds with very good eyesight, claws (also called talons) and a hooked beak. They need all of these to capture ...

Most birds of prey are fast, large, and have sharp beaks and talons or all of the above. The wild birds on this list live in ...

New video upsets the old notion that these birds of paradise use wing clapping to make percussive sounds while courting.

Less than a minute after friends and I arrived at Westerly’s Napatree Point one blustery morning last week, we watched a ...

Then a camouflaged speaker that scientists had placed nearby started to play. First came a recorded honk from an unpartnered ...

HOUSTON — Residents along Brays Bayou are worried about a bird that has found itself in a precarious situation. The blue heron has trash stuck on its beak, preventing it from eating. Usually ...

Changes in finch beaks, driven by environmental factors, also alter their songs, which affects how the birds recognize their ...

A journalist takes a rare trip to the Farallones, to see how the more than half a million seabirds that breed there each year ...

The Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) is between 34cm to 43cm in length, and are widely distributed across Portugal. These ...

While “de-extinction science”, even if feasible, presents significant problems, getting rich celebrities to cough up millions ...

Well, it’s finally here. Tuesday was the opening day of small game hunting season and I was out there, hunting behind my ...

Hunters may be consumed with questions of when the ducks will arrive; avid birders know there’s more to migration than ...