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A six-week 2013 expedition to remote islands in the Indonesian archipelago turned up a treasure trove of unidentified songbirds.

The Migratory Bird Protection Act would buttress the Migratory Bird Treaty Act while accelerating action to save birds from industrial deaths.

When many other birds head south for warmer weather, these raptors pair up and hunker down.

The voracious crawlers are now chewing through leaf litter in Minnesota and Chicago and disrupting understory where some birds nest.

A lot, it turns out, on the quintessential Christmas Bird Count.

Our biggest national forest is home to species found nowhere else, but proposed logging threatens the habitat they need to survive, writes Natalie Dawson, a biologist and executive director of Audubon Alaska.

Good for more than just attracting a mate, the clownish feature appears to keep the subpar fliers from overheating.

The Chinese Crested Tern was written off as extinct decades ago. Since its rediscovery in 2000, scientists have been working to ensure that Asia’s rarest seabird keeps a firm foothold in reality.

Island Scrub-Jays are acorn-planting machines. Might flying foresters be just what today's scorched Western landscapes need?

Mounting scientific evidence supporting the health benefits of the outdoors is helping shape innovations in medicine, education, and more.