Is it a juvenile red-tailed hawk in dark form?" asks Birds & Blooms reader Carl Muehlemeyer of Broomfield, Colorado. A surefire way to tell an adult red-tailed from a juvenile is to look at its tail.

In modern birds, these bones are totally fused and, due to their length, are often mistaken for the lower legs. This gives birds their distinct—and misleading—"backward-facing knee" look.

The genes that caused scales to become feathers in the early ancestors of birds have been found by US ... "You can see we can indeed induce them to form appendages, although it is not beautiful ...

Some birds migrate thousands of miles every autumn. How exactly do they manage it? Scientists built a flight chamber to find ...

Birds are vertebrate animals adapted for flight. Many can also run, jump, swim, and dive. Some, like penguins, have lost the ability to fly but retained their wings. Birds are found worldwide and ...

Instead, the creatures form cross-species migrating communities that could prove to be beneficial to the birds. “It seems like common sense: When all of these birds are concentrating in really ...

We have added new and updated information to our Runner-up section on Bird Buddy, and added the Netvue Birdfy Feeder 2 Pro AI to What to look forward to. You may not know the difference between a ...

Captive-bred birds form a reserve as wild populations shrink. The program has about three dozen birds and aims to release some into the wild in 2020.

And with plenty of spots up for grabs in the senior team, Bird said the club's youngsters were desperate to stake an early claim. "Roosy said that it's going to be wide open for the first game and ...

These lessons were designed to accompany the first two parts of the PBS Life of Birds series. Although this lesson plan was developed primarily for grades 9-12, teachers of elementary or middle ...

Bank of Bird-in-Hand, a Lancaster County-based financial institution that serves farms and small businesses, plans to form a holding company. The holding company will be called Gelt Bancorp if ...