For Tom Giancola, the red-footed booby he saw was a “fancy bird” — not a bird-watching marvel, at least for Maryland. During an afternoon voyage on June 21 in the Chesapeake Bay, the Annapolis ...

Merlin Bird ID will soon feed AI-powered bird identifications into Cornell's eBird platform, helping researchers monitor bird populations using millions of real-world observations. The Latest Tech ...

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

Make your backyard the neighborhood hotspot.

A species that was previously considered lost, the black-naped pheasant-pigeon, was rediscovered in 2022. Doka Nason / American Bird Conservancy Nearly 12,000 species of birds exist in the wild, and ...

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When trying to attract and recognize potential mates, animals are known to rely on various signals, traits and behaviors. In the case of birds, these signals can typically include a wide range of ...

You may be familiar with the various memes detailing the fact that once you reach middle age, you're automatically sorted, Harry Potter hat–style, into one of a handful of hobbies, such as sourdough ...

Kathmandu, July 9 -- Avian influenza A (H5N1), also known as bird flu virus, has again been confirmed in dead crows found ...