Deep within South America's cloud forests lives the club-winged manakin, a bird unlike any other. Instead of singing, the ...

This amazing little bird uses his wings to sing. Find out how the male club-winged manakin creates sound to attract a female.

Hoatzins are known as a smelly bird. In fact, they're infamously referred to as one of the stinkiest animals to exist.

The dream of flying has always fascinated humanity. In evolutionary history, the ability to fly has emerged independently only three times: in birds, pterosaurs, and, uniquely among mammals, in bats.

A tiny, overlooked wrist bone called the pisiform may have played a pivotal role in bird flight and it turns out it evolved ...

At sunset, a flock of chimney swifts flying south will look for a place to roost for the night. When they find a suitable chimney, they’ll begin to swarm around it, in something Harber calls a ...

The extinct flightless pigeon has captured imaginations for over 400 years. Experts and artists are now revealing how much we ...

The bald eagle is now the official bird of the United States, nearly 250 years after it was first used as a symbol of the ...

A summer of birdwatching reveals nesting mysteries, territorial truce, and daily song as local species — from phoebes to ...

Research from Washington University in St. Louis says that bird wing shape—a proxy for long-distance flying ability—is a trait that influences biodiversity patterns on islands around the world.

Even though Rhode Island is the smallest state in the country, it has a lot of different habitats, from woods to wetlands, to ...

Known in Orkney as ‘moosie-haak’, kestrels are fierce hunters but have seriously declined and are now an amber-listed species ...