Some long-distance travelers, such as the ever-popular Baltimore oriole, may choose to stay and nest in Iowa. For others, we are but the half-way point to ancestral summer breeding grounds. Many ...

While scientists have observed animals assisting their relatives, a new study reveals that many superb starlings also form ...

Approximately 40% of all birds migrate, whether it’s a quick trip to a warmer location or a long, grueling journey. Birds ...

Millions of birds are flying over Mississippi every night for the next few weeks. You can help them move safely. Here's what to know, when to be ready ...

The dapper black and yellow bobolink likes the Chicago area so much he flies here every spring from South America—a journey ...

THE present part of Mr. La Touche's “Birds of Eastern China” contains the Families Ploceidae, Fringillidae, Bombycillidse, and Hirundinidse, the sequence adopted by the author being the same ...

The Eastern Whip-poor-will (Antrostomus vociferus ... It sings its name on summer nights from moist, leafy woodlands. By day, this bird sleeps on the forest floor, or on a log or downed branch.

The pilot and passengers were conducting an aerial survey flight of an island off South Africa's Eastern Cape on January 19, 2025. The helicopter safely landed on Bird Island. Before departing ...

In fact, social monogamy is extremely common in birds and somewhat common in mammals, while sexual monogamy is vanishingly ...

Was that the call of an eastern phoebe, the small grey bird local to the Upper Valley? Every spring, hundreds of species of birds can be viewed in the Upper Valley, many of which have migrated back to ...