Julie Zickefoose, a nature book author, presented at the Newton Conservators webinar on Thursday, and discussed songbirds.

A male and female Baltimore oriole feed their young while perched on their hanging nest, which is made of materials like thin twigs, plant cotton and bark strips. Spring is in the air — which ...

By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Birds are fairly odd creatures, but among the odd are the oddest — strange and wacky evolutions that perfectly suit their ecological niche while appearing alien and ...

ITHACA, N.Y. — Spring is here and that means new life all around including nesting birds. The NestWatch project at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology invites people to monitor bird nests near you ...

Nature lovers can livestream two pairs of rare birds as they build their nests and rear their chicks in Co. Cork this spring. Members of the public can now tune in again this year to ‘Nestflix ...

Mar. 20, 2025 — A new study has discovered that birds in the Galapagos Islands are changing their behavior due to traffic noise, with those frequently exposed to vehicles showing heightened ...

Mar. 20, 2025 — Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By ...

Researchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis —both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in ...

Meet the great potoo, a mysterious nocturnal bird from Central and South America. It has a unique ability—it can see even with its eyes closed! Let’s explore more about this fascinating bird.