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

Murmuration,” by Rebecca Lefebvre, now occupying the Broomfield Library and Auditorium lobby, uses nature as a neutral ground ...

A review of 50 years of ornithological literature revealed a strong bias for familiar, visually appealing species over their ...

Winged Canvas is an online school for illustration and a vibrant art nerd community! Dedicated to making art education accessible, they offer free live art education streams every Saturday and Sunday, ...

I never paid much notice to the birds until I had kids. With the exception of the brightly-colored cardinals and blue jays, ...

For the past 107 years, Dersh has been ruffling feathers in the Big Apple — dyeing, sewing, gluing, steaming and putting ...

If you think chickens can’t teach kids life lessons, you haven’t talked to Esther Douglas. She’s been working with six ...

The birds fly in bunches, clouds of bobbing feathers and beaks, flocks shaping and shifting as they glide into the flats. Part of what makes the spring migration so spectacular, Nakai said, is the ...

Homosexuality is a common occurrence among birds and gay vulture couples have successfully raised chicks at Artis, Amersvoort and Beekse Bergen zoos in previous years. In 2020, a gay penguin couple at ...

made in collaboration with folk musician and member of Ye Vagabonds Brían MacGloinn - listen to the first episode of Feather & Flock above. Birds are all around us, calling out over rooftops ...

But there's more to bird flight than strong wings and hollow bones. One secret lies in their covert feathers—layers of small feathers that cover the wing’s base and shift during tricky ...

This conclusion was confirmed by the strong relationship between foraging location (carbon-13) and mercury in penguin feathers. It is the first study to show that carbon-13, not nitrogen-15, best ...