If you've spotted a critter swooping into your nest box at night, it might not be a bird! Get to know America's too-cute ...

The animal kingdom is full of extraordinary endurance stories, but few are as astonishing as the migration of the bar-tailed ...

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Millions of birds invisibly migrate through the night sky each autumn, most flying in near silence toward their wintering grounds. Now, scientists have developed a way to see and identify many of ...

The dinosaur’s bones were accompanied by broken bird bones crushed into pellets, strikingly similar to those regurgitated by modern-day owls after consuming prey. This evidence led researchers to ...

Millions of migrating birds are traveling mostly north through Oregon over the next few weeks, and they could use a little help to make their way safely to their breeding grounds. As these birds fly ...

For many of us, the sound of a bird crashing into a nearby window might be an unfortunately common occurrence. As unpleasant as it is to think about, hundreds of millions of birds die annually due to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Frigatebirds can remain airborne for days at a time without ...