Science

May 24, 2018 — Today’s great diversity of tree-dwelling birds can be traced back to small ground birds that survived global forest destruction.

May 23, 2018 — Using 3D-printed "cuckoo" eggs, researchers found that native birds will be in big trouble if the foreign nest parasites ever colonize.

May 18, 2018 — New research shows that many North American songbirds log extra miles to refresh their feathers before migrating.

May 15, 2018 — A history of glaciers and warm spells has turned the region into a special place where species and subspecies mate.

April 30, 2018 — Such behavior had been unheard of in Great Horned Owls—until a live cam captured this atypical family.

April 26, 2018 — Rosemary Mosco, creator of the comic “Bird and Moon,” on how humor, animals, and cartoons are a natural fit.

April 24, 2018 — Each spring, thousands of the ravenous raptors descend on California's Anza-Borrego desert to gorge themselves on a buffet of moth larvae.

April 20, 2018 — Here are the three groups you should pay especially close attention to.

April 18, 2018 — Turns out the smiley Superb Bird-of-Paradise has a sister species, and its moves are quite different. Judge the video evidence for yourself.

April 17, 2018 — With commercial demand for fossils high, scientists worry valuable discoveries from the bird-rich Green River Formation are being lost.