Latest Birds Stories
Hummingbirds routinely hit 9Gs like it’s no big deal
15 bird photos that will make your heart sing
On Instagram, this quirky bird soars above the rest
Here’s the real story behind Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’
The biggest animal ever to fly was a reptile with a giraffe-like neck
Salmonella could be lurking at your bird feeders and baths. Here’s how to clean them.
Whose hoot? DNA and sound studies help define two new owl species in Brazil.
A peregrine falcon’s power to migrate may lie in its DNA
Were rocks on the menu for these ancient birds?
Before we knew how bird migration worked, scientists had some truly wild theories
Three love stories about birds that will delight your heart
This robotic hawk can shape-shift as it flies
Dinosaurs may have evolved into birds, but early flights didn’t go so well
Birds are dinosaurs, and this fossil detective has rooms full of bones to prove it
How to help an injured bird
Bird songs got sexier during the COVID-19 shutdown
Blood, death, and eye gouging: welcome to the world of acorn woodpeckers
A day in the life of an eagle wrangler
The quest to snare—and save—the world’s largest owl
Bird names are due for an anti-racist reckoning
White-throated sparrows are ditching their classic song for a new tune
Hummingbirds can see colors we can’t even imagine
Black birders have never been safe or celebrated
Migratory birds in the Eastern US are struggling to adapt to climate change
New Zealand’s bold rat-control campaign sees its first wave of successes
Rhinos pay a painful price for oxpecker protection
How to start birding in any US city
Kea parrots use statistics to get what they want
One of the most important laws protecting birds in the US just got gutted
Jackass penguins talk like people
See how birds change their tunes to fit their surroundings
For some African grey parrots, sharing is caring
Hummingbirds get their wild coloring from ‘air-filled pancakes’ in their feathers
Vultures are going extinct because people won’t stop consuming their brains
We’ve lost almost 3 billion birds in the U.S. and Canada since 1970
Congratulations to new penguin dads Skipper and Ping
This three-foot-tall parrot proves New Zealand is the mecca of giant weird birds
The weirdest things we learned this week: Two sleeps are better than one
Baby sharks are eating the birds that live in your backyard
Wind turbines do not cause cancer
At the height of the Peruvian guano boom, people mined poop instead of gold
Puffy unicorn stickers could save millions of migrating birds each year
Warblers live longer with a little child-rearing help from their friends
20,000 birds just starved to death off the Dutch coast and no one knows why
Penguins may have islands to thank for their diverse looks
How birds of a feather flock together
Great tits are killing birds and eating their brains. Climate change may be to blame.
Behold the mighty elephant bird, blindly crashing through the Madagascan forest
These plants bring all the birds to your yard
Some hummingbirds hit notes so high, only a dog could hear them
Drunk birds are wreaking havoc in Minnesota
Megapixels: A moth drinks tears from a bird’s eye
Our seasons are out of whack, which is really bad for migratory birds
We trained crows to pick up garbage, but can we teach ourselves?
These are the best bird photographs of 2018
Everything you think you know about bald eagles is wrong
Scientists just discovered 125 million-year-old dinosaur dandruff
How modern-day dinosaurs survived the apocalypse
Russian cuckoos are taking over Alaska
This albatross couple adopted a baby of another species
You’d have to give birth to a 30-pound baby to truly know how a kiwi bird feels
Puffins are donning sexy little sunglasses in the name of science
This little baby bird lived 127 million years ago and died the size of your pinky
Americans used to eat pigeon all the time—and it could be making a comeback