We go behind the scenes at Seattle's Burke Museum to get a rare look inside the world's largest collection of spread wings ...

Ahead of the biggest day in birding, we take an inside look at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, home to millions of audio ...

Nineteenth-century ornithologists, like journalists, specialized in the — who, what, where, when — of observing birds. Many birds of this era were collected in the field, stuffed and studied, leading ...

Welcome to the Bird Cams Lab, a project from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology now in development with support from the National Science Foundation. The goal of the project is to join viewers from around ...

The study of wild birds has had a disproportionate impact on the birth and evolution of several branches of science. Thus argue Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny and Bob Montgomerie in Ten Thousand Birds. In ...

Lined with endless rows of white cabinets, Harvard’s Ornithology Collection is imposing — even mausoleum-like — upon first glance; it’s only after opening the drawers that the true colors of the ...

Frederick II was the first "modern" ornithologist, studying birds in detail in the 13th century to fuel his passion for falconry. Wikimedia Commons Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor born on this ...

The scientific study of birds is called ornithology. It is a specialized zoological discipline, which deals with the physiology, classification and ecology of bird species. What is the study of birds?

John M. Marzluff extols a rich history of ornithology's debt to egg collecting. Birkhead starts his story in the nineteenth century, on English cliffs where eccentric collectors wait anxiously for ...