The female will produce a clutch of 3 to 4 white eggs and will lay them directly on a layer of fresh wood chips at the bottom of the newly excavated nest cavity. Both birds will take turns incubating ...

Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many ...

Behind the wheel is Nick Leseberg, an ecologist, who drives at a slow but steady pace with keen eyes that miss little in the fading light. We pull over at the side of the road at one point to inspect ...

Ornamental grasses add gentle muted colors, vertical accents, and graceful movement to a landscape. And though they're ...

Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that's different from the version that has spread in ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

Could a novel approach to genetic studies give us a clearer picture of how evolutionary adaptations occur? That's what the ...

The Java sparrow is ready for the video recording. As I hold it carefully in my hand in order to transfer it to the recording ...