While you're there, look out for the mountain hare's avian equivalent: the ptarmigan. This plump, grouse-like animal is the only British bird that ... looming shadow figure, often with rainbow ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Matthew Medler of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology about the best bird sounds of 2025 from their vast collection of recordings, and why their selections made the list.

As the cold gloomy weather persists into February, it’s important to keep an eye out on your garden birds. Winter is the toughest time for our feathery friends, as they compete with migratory ...

Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on pandemics since 2009 and is the ...

A subtype of bird flu caused by avian influenza A (H5) virus has been spreading worldwide in wild birds with a few outbreaks in poultry, dairy cows and other mammals across the United States ...

There are seven generations of Corwins in the Aquebogue, Long Island, town cemetery. Their graves overlook the farm that's been in the family since the 1640s. Some family members' tombstones are ...

which helps the virus break out of cells and spread to others. Scientists call bird flu viruses high- or low- pathogenic depending on how sick they make birds. These designations have little to do ...

They found that individual birds from different species were flying near one another and calling out to each other using certain patterns, “more so than we could explain by chance,” Van Doren ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...