Science

January 08, 2019 — Coming in many shapes, colors, and sizes, strange mouth markings might aid in chick survival.

December 21, 2018 — Dead American Oystercatchers on Brazilian beaches were loaded with plastic, hinting that the world’s pollution problem isn’t just far out at sea.

December 20, 2018 — New research provides support for splitting the Northern Cardinal into multiple species.

December 20, 2018 — New research has found that a third of the avian population that winters in the mainland United States might not survive till spring. But why?

December 19, 2018 — Decades after the brown tree snake wiped out Guam’s birds, biologists have an ambitious plan to bring native species back to the stunning island.

December 17, 2018 — Common songbirds in Britain’s Wytham Woods are providing an unprecedented window into avian affairs—and maybe even our own.

December 14, 2018 — Meet the "puffleg” birds of the Latin American tropics, covered in feathers all the way down.

November 19, 2018 — Data collected from a triennial spring survey has helped gain the birds state-wide protections. Now they're being considered for a federal listing.

November 15, 2018 — New research breaks down the fundamentals required to smoothly go from perched to airborne.

November 13, 2018 — Predators now wipe out 70 percent of shorebird nests in the far north, a shift in historical patterns that scientists pin on climate change.