Excavations on Peru's coast reveal pre-Inca parrot husbandry, radiocarbon-dated to 1100-1450, and long-distance transport from the Amazon basin.

Celebrate Urban Birds is a citizen science project focused on better understanding the value of green spaces for birds. This project connects people of all ages and backgrounds to birds and the ...

Large clusters appearing on weather radars are likely massive flocks of migrating birds, not storms. A record-breaking 1.2 billion birds were estimated to be migrating in a single night during the ...

Along with the annual leaf drop from deciduous trees at about the middle of October, which is hard not to notice, this time is also well known for migration. We have been seeing the migration of birds ...

It’s a crisp autumn morning, and the forest holds a quiet promise of motion overhead. Travelers arrive at a hidden nature preserve and pause, noticing faint shadows moving through the air and hearing ...

The thick conifers (left) in this forest may provide Blue Jays with shelter, while the deciduous trees (foreground) may offer woodpecker holes for chickadees and other small birds. BILL DANIELSON / ...