Using ancient DNA extracted from the toe bone of a museum specimen, biologists have sequenced the genome of an extinct, flightless bird called the little bush moa, shedding light into an unknown ...

Smithsonian researcher Klara Widrig studies living birds to build 3D models of their ancestors’ anatomies, uncovering how flight evolved Ashley D'Souza Postdoctoral researcher Klara Widrig (standing) ...

Conservationists set up a colony of white storks in southern England, touching off a debate over whether they truly belong ...

A groundbreaking study has shed new light on the evolution of colorful bird feathers, challenging long-held assumptions about tropical bird diversity. Researchers analyzed the characteristics of 9,409 ...

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 ...

One man’s trash is a common coot’s treasure, at least when it comes to plastic. In Amsterdam, the birds have been constructing nests out of plastic food wrappers, masks and other waste for at least 30 ...

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 ...

Miranda Zammarelli, Guarini, was a graduate student at Dartmouth for just nine days when her interests in birds, history, and archives converged in a set of old filing cabinets in New Hampshire's ...

This winter, tens of thousands of birders will survey winter bird populations for the National Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count, part of an international bird census, powered by volunteers, that ...

In the largest ever study of bird genetics, a five-year international collaboration has redrawn the avian family tree. The report, published in Science this week (June 27), proposes surprising new ...