Scientists discovered that scissor-tailed nightjars create strange courtship sounds by snapping the bones in their wings ...

As part-night lighting (i.e., turning off streetlights in the middle of the night) becomes more widespread among local ...

It happens every spring morning like clockwork. The sky is still dark, the neighbourhood is silent, and then out of nowhere, a robin starts up. Clear, bright, cheerful, completely unbothered by the ...

Ella Bleu Travolta, the only daughter of actors John Travolta and the late Kelly Preston, has been following in her parents’ ...

I have the distinct privilege of working part-time at the Canyonlands Research Center, operated by The Nature Conservancy in Utah’s southeast corner. I live in northern Utah, so when I’m down there in ...

There’s a lake in Oregon where you can see the bottom at depths that would make a scuba diver jealous. No, this isn’t some ...

Birds living in noisy cities change their songs, but they do not all adapt in the same way scientists once believed.

Some birds sing to attract a mate. Others dance or display colorful feathers. But in the moonlit forests and shrublands of ...

In northern Argentina, one bird courts romance by snapping its wrists together, producing a sound scientists have puzzled ...

Michigan could see more than 6.7 million birds fly overhead Thursday night, May 21, amid spring migration.

Calling someone a bird-brain may not be the insult it was intended to be. Although small in size, some birds' brains, such as ...