AI study links rare bursts of songbird evolution to ancient climate shifts across 45 million years.

Wildfire smoke can reduce bird diversity the following year, even in places where nearby land never actually burned.

From avid bird watchers to kids on summer vacation, anyone on the West Coast who can carve out some time this fire season to observe the habits of their local flying friends is encouraged to join UCLA ...

More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ostriches, and kiwi birds. In a study in the journal Evolution, researchers ...

A 30-year “snapshot study” of birds in the Pacific Northwest is showing their surprising resilience in the face of climate change. The project started when Georgia Tech School of Biological Sciences ...

As rising global temperatures alter ecosystems worldwide, animal species usually have two choices: adapt to changing local conditions or flee to a cooler clime. Ecologists have long assumed that the ...

Deb Haaland: Learn from the past | Miyoko Chu: Desert birds at risk | Scott Weidensaul: Changes in migration | Clay Henderson: Bird count warnings | Rodney Siegel: The value of parks | Amy Davis: ...

Every year, billions of birds undertake extraordinary migrations, crossing vast deserts and open seas with no place to stop, feed, or rest. A new international study published in iScience by a ...

To remove potentially offensive names, a birding society said it would rename birds originally named after people. Since many birders resisted the change, it will be a topic at their annual meeting.

As autumn closes in on UK gardens, simple changes can turn borders into busy bird highways. Which small tweaks really tempt ...

The types of birds that visit and thrive on the islands of Yáláƛi, the Goose Island Archipelago, a Canadian Important Bird Area, have changed dramatically in the past 70 years. The Haíɫzaqv people, ...