Swallows live for up to 11 years and start breeding at 2 years of age. They are excellent fliers but often land in large groups on telephone poles etc. At the end of a day, they will fly in ever ...

The Lac du Der was once just a passing glimpse for hundreds of thousands of cranes flying from Scandinavia in search of ...

People in northern climates are familiar with flocks of birds flying south in the winter, but why do they do it, and why ...

It soars over the borders and divisions of the war-torn Middle East, bringing Arab and Israeli academics together.An ...

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

Bird protection will be front of mind for Goldwind after four key species found at its proposed Bashan wind farm site in Tasmania.

So for September, our Year of the Bird ask is to do everything you can to help birds have a safe migration this fall ... shows that artificial lights lure birds from their migratory routes. Making 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.

Burkina Faso’s little-known nature reserves need protection. They are a key stopover point for the 2.1 billion birds that ...

The geese winter at the wetland, leaving their frozen homes on the Tibetan plateau and in Central Asia each year, tens of ...