Swabs from birds’ mouths are placed in tubes and tested for avian influenza virus. (Photo by Erica Spackman/USDA) The U.S. Department of Agriculture will fund research projects that explore the highly ...
Red backed shrikes migrate using a fixed schedule, flying in stages with little variation, showing that genetics guide bird migration.
Research teams studying bats and birds gather in Panama’s Soberanía National Park to celebrate the launch of a long-term census of bats designed to complement the bird census, which will celebrate its ...
The Valley Fire torched Lucky Peak in the fall of 2024. Bird researchers there are channeling their grief into study of how ...
Despite winter seeming bleak, the season offers birdwatchers the chance to see visitors like purple finch — and opportunities ...
The total solar eclipse in North America on April 8, 2024, temporarily reset the biological clocks of some bird species, according to new research.The eclipse created a dramatic spectacle as the moon ...
Ashley Dayer, a Virginia Tech professor and conservationist, began searching for one of the world's rarest birds in Maui ...
As backyard birders across Pennsylvania pull their bird feeders out of storage and fill them with seeds for the first time this year, some interesting research has opened new views into the world of ...
On a warm July morning, Will Krohn gingerly gripped a small pair of pliers in one hand and a newly hatched bird in the other. With the chick peeking its head out between two of Krohn’s fingers, Krohn ...
A study at Iowa State University is seeking to determine whether bird flu, found in cows' milk, can also show up in other dairy animals.
Americans often idealize scientists as unbiased, objective observers. But scientists are affected by conscious and unconscious biases, just as people in other fields are. Studies of birds’ vocal ...
Migrating birds have adapted to climate change by shrinking, with smaller bodies and shorter legs offset by longer wings. The Field Museum collected over 70,000 birds killed mostly in building ...