Bird names, both common and scientific, try to help clarify which bird is which. A black-capped chickadee by any other name ...

This week, I am featuring the house sparrow, perhaps the most common bird in Ada. I am referring to the municipality, as these birds tend to thrive among human populations. The more humans and ...

Birds are some of the most colorful animals on Earth, with a palette of rainbow tones to feast your eyes on. Here are our ...

A study of a bizarre prehistoric bird's fossilized remains has uncovered fascinating new details regarding its behavior.

By outfitting blackbirds with heart-rate monitors, scientists debunked a long-held assumption about the benefits of spending ...

One of our most maligned bird species is the vulture. In our case, the turkey vulture. Many people I know call it ugly and ...

This can cause red marks, inflammation, and itching. There are many different types of bird mites, the two of the most common ones are northern fowl mites (Ornithonyssus sylviarum) and chicken ...

With summer coming to a close, it may be time to put the bird feeder in the backyard away, with S.C.'s most common hummingbird ready to journey back south. Here's when hummingbirds leave the state ...

We never see most of them. They migrate by night, high in the sky, using the moon and stars for navigation. And by day, ...

A southern cassowary chick, one of the world's largest and deadliest birds, has been successfully hatched for the first time at a bird park in the Cotswolds. Keepers at Birdland in Bourton-on-the ...

Common Swifts spend most of their life in the air ... is a familiar sight in summer skies for Europeans and Asians. These birds spend almost their entire lives in flight, eating, drinking, and even ...

Among the further 28 considered introduced and naturalised were common garden birds like mynas, goldfinches, starlings and blackbirds. On top of pressures like predators and habitat loss ...