In 2019, a bold male seabird threw caution to the wind, flying above Typhoon Faxai as the storm pummeled southeastern Japan. It was the start of an 11-hour, 1,146-km (712-mile) crazy journey, that ...

Scientists once believed birds relied only on flight, talons and socialization for survival. But this one proves otherwise: it uses chemistry. For most of modern biology, there was a widely accepted ...

From scorching deserts to freezing oceans, birds around the world have developed incredible methods for regulating their body temperatures. Mike Bock Imagine it’s hot, and you’re trying to stay cool.

Imagine zooming out on a giant family tree that includes every bird you have ever seen. Ostriches sprint across open plains, ...

In one of the largest studies of cancer susceptibility across bird species, researchers describe an intriguing relationship between reproductive rates and cancer susceptibility. In one of the largest ...

The female Green Honeycreeper bird is appropriately enough colored green, whereas the male is blue. So, what happens when a Honeycreeper is half of each sex? Well, as recently taken photos show us, ...

A year ago, local birder Chris Petrak published "Tails of Birding," essays collected from a Reformer newspaper column he’d been writing for a decade. This year, he’s come out with "More Tails of ...

Ruddy ducks paddle in the Prairie Pothole aviary. Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute visitors will be able to see these migratory birds up close at the renovated Bird House, ...

In one of the largest studies of cancer susceptibility across bird species, researchers at Arizona State University describe ...