The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The ostrich is the tallest bird that inhabits the planet ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea slugs.

“For decades,” explained Worthy, “the extinction of New Zealand’s birds was viewed primarily through the lens of human ...

Scientists are on the hunt for over 120 species of birds that may—or may not—be extinct, and they want your help to find them. The ubiquity of smartphones has led to surge in data for birders and ...

Birds tend to be more colorful in the tropics, and scientists wanted to find out how they got there: if colorful feathers evolved in the tropics, or if tropical birds have brightly-colored ancestors ...

When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived in my region were nowhere to be found. Some, like the passenger pigeon, ...

Up to 50 percent of species—which included 12 bird species and 4 frog species—on Aotearoa’s North Island went extinct before ...

Many semipalmated plovers and dunlins ran along the sand while sanderlings darted in and out of the water. Herons, egrets and ...

This bird lies for a living. Here’s what biological researchers have gleaned about its intelligence by observing its clever ...

For instance, researchers use the backyard sightings that users submit to Project FeederWatch —a joint program run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Birds Canada —to track long-term changes in ...