With their astonishing speed, impressive size, and razor-sharp talons and beaks, birds of prey rule the skies of North ...

The National Audubon Society has announced the winners of its 2024 Photography Awards, which, among other amazing images, include photos of birds threatened with extinction. Now in its 15th year, the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — It's about 3 inches long and weighs as much as a penny. But a calliope hummingbird is a tough little bird. It can fly up to 5,600 miles in a year. Despite its tiny stature, the ...

Just a century ago, North America’s skies held species now gone forever. From passenger pigeons to Carolina parakeets, these ...

Embarking for their daily visit to look for birds at Portage Park in Sturgeon Bay, Candy and Rush Evans didn't expect to see anything out of the ordinary. "(We) didn't really have high hopes because ...

When a total solar eclipse plunged North America into darkness on the afternoon of April 8, 2024, the songbirds in ...

North America's bird populations are rapidly shrinking, and new research suggests the losses are accelerating in places once considered safe, The Guardian reported. The study, published in Science, ...

WASHINGTON — Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms, and sent the price of eggs soaring in the United States since it was first detected in North America in late 2021. But what has been the ...

Great egrets and little blue herons. Blue-winged warblers and yellow-bellied sapsuckers. Snowy owls and tropical kingbirds. Across North America, three-fourths of bird species are in decline, ...

SAN DIEGO — A name change is coming to dozens of species of well-known birds this year — all in a push by the American Ornithological Society to remove human names and swap them with more useful, ...

More than one in four North American birds have disappeared since 1970, signaling the development of potentially deeper ecological problems in the region, according to a new study co-authored by ...