Image via Getty Images No, that's not a weather pattern. It's a flock of bird moving in a strange way. In Wyoming, residents ...

For some birds, recognizing their own eggs can be a matter of life or death. In a new study, scientists have shown that many birds affected by the parasitic Common Cuckoo -- which lays its lethal ...

Research looks at the evolutionary pathways to differences in bird plumage patterns between males and females -- and concludes that birds are able to adapt their appearance with remarkable ease.

Larger-bodied migratory birds are reproducing less, while sedentary species of small-bodied birds tend to produce more offspring under similar conditions, according to an international study focused ...

A photographer has put a unique spin on traditional wildlife photography, transforming flying flocks of birds into stark, futuristic abstractions across the sky. Catalan artist Xavi Bou, creator of ...

National Bird Day 2025 highlights how bird population changes reveal environmental stress and ecosystem health worldwide.

Bird migration comes in many flavours – and, as with ice cream, “vanilla” is the one people are most familiar with. This is the process of flying from the northern hemisphere to the southern ...

The consequences hit close to home. Researchers issue warning after observing troubling pattern in bird populations: 'It's ...

On a hike one day, photographer Xavier Bou, who is based in Barcelona, wondered if the flight paths of birds could be captured on paper. Through research he realised they could – and represented in a ...

Song birds can be trained to understand non-language aspects of human speech, such as pitch, volume and duration of syllables. This is according to a study that shows zebra finches are even more ...