Toucan Natural selection was cooking when it came up with these guys. Just an insane extravaganza of a bill, it is useful for reaching the fruit that makes up a toucan’s diet, but, surprisingly, that ...

Off Brazil's coast lies Snake Island, home to thousands of highly venomous golden lancehead vipers. The island's isolation led to the evolution of pot ...

By its simplest definition, a vulture is a bird of prey that feeds on carrion, which is the meat of dead animals. The media ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — An injured Southeast Texas owl is awaiting transfer to a wildlife rehabilitator after being rescued by a ...

Bears are symbols of power and resilience. Birds are symbols of freedom and mystery. At first glance, these two creatures ...

It may look gruesome, but shrikes impale their prey to store it and aid in eating. Learn all about this fascinating killer songbird.

All the season’s colors made the gray mockingbird seem so majestic,” says Birds & Blooms reader Sujata Roy. In addition to gray birds, you should learn to identify these small red birds. Canada Jay ...

What happens when a husky dog meets a rescued snowy owl? Animals often surprise us, and this interaction is nothing but ...

Attract them to your yard with a hummingbird feeder that stores nectar, or plant flowers such as bee balm, hostas, petunias, ...

Next time you hear hooting and it sounds like “Who’s coming for dinner,” take a look in your garden or backyard to determine ...

A monitor lizard, or Varanus salvator, joins the bird in front of the lens, blundering into the clearing as the bird once again shoots up its feathers and charges the lizard before darting off, the ...

They bite, excrete acid, asphyxiate their prey and create huge super colonies that are hard to kill. What to know ...