Black swifts can fly with a speed up to 111.5 km/h, without landing for eight months a year, and nest exclusively around waterfalls ...

World Migratory Bird Day celebrates bird species across the world who travel far and wide, spending precious resources to ...

Superb starlings help care for the offspring of birds they are not related to. “To me, that sounds like friendship,” one ...

There is a remarkable-looking songbird that I occasionally encounter in the Mountains, and they have an unforgettable ...

Swallow-tailed kites are big grayish birds with long deeply forked black tails. Mississippi kites are much smaller with a black unbarred tail. And white-tailed kites, the most unusual one in this ...

“They’re often mistaken for a wedge-tailed eagle, but they’re slightly smaller,” he explains. Lilly lagoon is a favourite bird hangout. Picture: Chris Symmons Symmons started Longreach ...

Birds are the reason. One family of birds that makes their ... They appear a bit chunkier than barn swallows and do not have the long-forked tails, either. They too migrate considerable distances to ...

New Guinea is home to some of the world’s most toxic birds. Why they contain poison, and how they withstand it is still a ...

For centuries, scientists have observed that animals in warmer climates have longer limbs—a pattern known as Allen's Rule.

The first Swallows came trickling into Ireland from mid-March heralding the arrival of summer and bringing the sound of their ...

Research teams studying bats and birds gather in Panama’s Soberanía National Park to celebrate the launch of a long-term census of bats designed to complement the bird census, which will ...