Finding a mate in the animal kingdom is not easy. It is often a competitive and dramatic process that requires substantial effort. In many species, males go to extraordinary lengths just for a chance ...

Wind farms are impacting bird populations. Birds are altering their songs to be heard over turbine noise, a costly adaptation ...

Golden-crowned kinglets are the tiniest songbirds that can survive a Maine winter. They do so by making lots of babies, perpetuating the species despite the high mortality induced by harsh winter ...

New Guinea's tropical rainforests are home to one of the animal kingdom's most spectacular courtship rituals, with male birds ...

The Kauaʻi ʻōʻō honeyeater has been extinct since 2000. But its tragic ending was marked by one final, heartbreaking song.

Pale Male’s winged widow is shacking up with a boy toy years after the death of her beloved red-tailed-hawk mate — and the new Upper East Side lovebirds apparently already have a little one. Octavia ...

This year the series will be broadcast live from one of Northern Ireland’s most important nature conservation areas, Crom ...

Envelope-pushing European-based American writer Nell Zink joins a stellar cast at this year’s Jerusalem International Writers ...

Residents living along the shores of Lake Winnebago are resigned to the appearance of winged insects every May. Lake flies ...

Students from Gifft Hill School’s third and ninth grades recently went out on a boat to look for nesting seabirds on some of ...

Adorable baby owls have been hatched for the first time at a Scottish wildlife center. The pair of mottled owls was born four ...

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