Large numbers of birds are expected to fly over the D.C. area for their fall migration this week, and they are at risk from ...

It was thought that birds gained an energy advantage by escaping cold winters, but new research has quashed that assumption.

Scientists have long surmised that birds migrate during winters to save energy. The reasoning has been pretty obvious: far ...

Depending on where you live, you might catch a glimpse of birds either leaving your area, flying overhead en masse, or settling down in your yard. October is the heart of the fall migration season ...

Inspired by a classic movie, conservationists are teaching endangered Northern Bald Ibises to fly south for the winter ...

Farmers are temporarily transforming their fields into much-needed wetlands.

Bird migration research is primarily focused on birds that breed in Europe and North America, whereas the migration of birds ...

Each autumn, millions of migratory birds embark on long journeys to warmer regions, sometimes traveling thousands of miles ...

Bird migration has and continues to be one of the main lines of ornithological research. Birds employ a surprising variety of strategies to move across the planet, from short-distance movements that ...

With the fall season, the southwest sees numerous bird species passing through on their migration, others leaving for more southern locations, and some coming to stay for the winter. A few of the ...

On the Galapagos’ most developed island, researchers are tracking a growing threat to the millennia-old migration routes of giant tortoises.