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.

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.

Besides being dark and mysterious, crows are extremely intelligent birds. So smart, in fact, that it might be a little bit scary. Even though their brains are the size of a human thumb, their ...

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.

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

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