That silvery band around a bird’s leg is much more than a simple ring of aluminum. “There’s almost an entire history in each band,” said bird bander Meredith McBurney of the Rocky Mountain Bird ...

There are only a handful of very large bird species around today, but as intimidating as an ostrich might be when it’s staring down at you from eight feet high it’s nothing compared to the massive ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Birders are crowing over an extremely rare bird sighting that occurred at Hug Point State Recreation Site on April 21. Vancouver resident Michael Sanchez told KOIN 6 News that ...

Madagascar’s elephant birds — which weighed as much as three or four people and went extinct several hundred years ago — turn out to be the closest known relatives of New Zealand’s chicken-sized kiwi.

This brief history, outlined in his new book "The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird," begins with an anything-but-emblematic impression of the bird from years ago. The bald eagle ...

In Birds and Us: A 12,000-Year History from Cave Art to Conservation (Princeton Univ., Aug.), ornithologist Birkhead traces the history of humans’ relationships with avian creatures. How did you ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today. Settled into a comfortable married life in Didsbury, then a leafy part of Manchester, Emily ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently discovered ...

Nest researcher Auke-Florian Hiemstra stumbled upon a bird nest that appeared to go back 30 years in time – filled with historical plastics. His discovery of successive layers of plastic in birds’ ...

The Great Egret is a symbol of resilience, strength, and prosperity. The Audubon Society uses this bird’s imagery to represent the benefits of successful bird conservation efforts. Let’s learn more ...