Science

October 20, 2016 — The Australian songbirds structure their songs like improvisational jazz riffs, according to a new study.

October 12, 2016 — The behavior is rarely seen, and it's one of the more dramatic examples of courtship in the bird world.

October 03, 2016 — While studying new technologies for drones, researchers discovered the instincts that keep birds from colliding.

September 22, 2016 — One year after it was announced that the bird would not be listed for protection under the Endangered Species Act, an update.

September 19, 2016 — The elusive owls live in California's Sierra Nevada and have fascinated researchers for a century, but studying them has never been easy.

September 18, 2016 — To rescue the graceful marsh bird, researchers first have to solve the mystery of its dramatic decline.

September 16, 2016 — The behavior is one that regularly occurs in territorial disputes, but it is rarely seen—or captured.

September 14, 2016 — New research shows how the birds keep flock leaders with bad information from throwing them off course.

September 13, 2016 — This summer, a rare example of inter-species adoption was made even more special by the fact that these two birds typically don't get along.

September 08, 2016 — A secluded population of the non-indigenous ground bird breeds completely differently from birds in their original Himalayan habitat.