Scientists have established what could be considered a baseline map of annual avian functional and species diversity patterns in the U.S., finding that functional diversity patterns in the West, where ...

Ornithologists at the Natural History Museum and UCLA are studying how smoke from the January wildfires will affect the region’s birds. It’s part of a broader scientific effort to understand the ...

When I was growing up, my grandparents’ farm had a fence post that housed eastern bluebirds. These gorgeous little birds were ...

A recent study on social bird behavior has found that more sociality in birds may confer to reduced competition in interactions between and among bird species. The findings, published on March 1 in ...

The upcoming total solar eclipse is set to bring people from around the country to stare in awe at the cosmological wonder, but it may also spark strange behavior in birds. The timing of the ...

New research shows mountain birds move up and down slopes to save energy, find food, and avoid competition across seasons.

The rain might make us all a bit miserable, but it can have catastrophic influences on relationships—between birds. A small species of bird known as the Seychelles warbler, which live exclusively on ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – There is much more to avian biodiversity in the United States than the number of different species living in a given region or community, but the diversity of birds’ ecosystem ...

As thick clouds of smoke rolled across Los Angeles in early January, Allison Shultz opened a freezer and took out a stash of pristine white pigeon feathers. The ornithology curator at the Natural ...