It’s now widely accepted that birds evolved from dinosaurs, but imagine telling that to a 19th-century fossil collector.

The article explores the evolutionary link between dinosaurs and modern birds, highlighting various bird-like creatures from ...

Birds-of-paradise have captivated the planet with their elaborate plumage and idiosyncratic mating dances. Some species ...

The Anhinga is a Florida waterbird that has an extremely unusual "song" that sounds more like a sick frog than a bird.

Long-time residents say at least a dozen bright-blue Indian peacocks have wandered Errol Heights in Southeast Portland since ...

A seagull's head was marked with a swastika and its feathers were ripped out by an inmate at a prison in England; the gull is now recovering at a local wildlife rescue.

But some birds are total badasses—they swoop down, talons ready, and take on one of nature’s most feared creatures: snakes. That’s right. While most of us would rather run in the opposite direction, ...

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...

As the charismatic birds reintroduced to the region in the 1980s pop up more frequently, human-turkey encounters are on the rise ...

The great-tailed grackle, called by some the devil bird, is lovely to look at. Males are jet-black with a violet-blue iridescent sheen to their feathers that made them prized by Aztec kings in ...