“For nearly 250 years, we called the bald eagle the national bird when it wasn’t,” said Jack Davis, co-chair of the National Bird Initiative for the National Eagle Center, in a news release. “But now ...

Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.

The majestic Hummingbird, known for their rapid wingbeats, agility, and near-constant need for nectar. With their frantic, ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of Short Wave about the fluid dynamics of crowds, an early fossil of a modern bird and new data on how people's moods change through the day.

Portland’s crows are in the waning weeks of their winter roost. As spring approaches, the thousands of birds that flock to ...

A mild winter with low or no snow to cover fields allows birds such as sandhill cranes and Canada geese to stay in Wisconsin.

The findings challenge previous assumptions about butterfly migration and highlight the role of phenotypic plasticity.

Painted lady butterflies are world travelers. The ones we encounter in Europe fly from Africa to Sweden, ultimately returning to areas north and south of the Sahara. But what determines whether some ...

Painted lady butterflies are world travelers. The ones we encounter in Europe fly from Africa to Sweden, ultimately returning ...

Birds are always up to something, and these entries captured an array of avians doing everything from impaling prey to ...

The eagles find themselves in an environmental updraft of sorts since the early 2000’s, when the federal government took the ...

Before the day breaks on a winter morning at the Pong Lake wetland in northern India, muffled honks of geese are heard in the distance.