Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many other great questions in her book, The Bird Watching Answer Book. (For the ...

Study finds that birds-of-paradise are biofluorescent, suggesting that this "hidden" phenomenon provides enhanced signaling for hierarchy and courtship.

Ever wondered what role the neck serves? Besides holding the head in place, of course. Depending on the bird's diet and hunting style, necks adapt to help the bird survive. Not only that but sometimes ...

Saint Patrick's Day won't be for another month, but back home in Bucks County, local schools were awash in green last week as ...

The world's deadliest chick is now thriving at a bird sanctuary attraction in the Cotswolds. The Southern Cassowary chick hatched at Birdland in Bourton at the end of last year and it is was the only ...

Stroud Camera Club held its fourth competition of the year on Thursday and the standard of images was extremely high. They welcomed the esteemed Sandie Cox ARPS, DPAGB as judge to pick out what she ...

The military helicopter that collided with an American Airlines flight over Washington, DC, was flying nearly twice as high as it should have been — but the Black Hawk was not equipped with a ...

He said the birds could only feed at low tide so their time was limited. "If their time is spent flying around because people are disturbing them then they're not feeding and are burning up energy ...

For the many wondrous things humans can do, we can't fly on our own. But if we could, how big would our wings be? Of course, the answer depends on the person's size. But someone who's about 155 ...

she originally set out to examine birds and bird flight. In collaboration with other partners, she later began looking at insects and organisms that transition from one medium to another, like flying ...