Some bird species attack windows because they mistake their reflection for a rival. Take preventative measures in the spring, ...

I received some interesting bird-related calls and e-mails this week — a sure sign of spring. Matthew Boliver, of Castorland, in Lewis County, sent me the photo below of a partially white-colored ...

A new family tree of the world's bird species may be the most complete one ever made, and reveals some surprising relationships, as well as showing how characteristics such as birdsong evolved.

If there’s a factory where birds are built, the workers were clearly smoking something the day they designed the hummingbird. And the ostrich. And the toucan. Imagine, too, the pitch meeting for the ...

Call it the matchup between the Higgs boson and a bread crumb. And the bread crumb seems to have prevailed in this round. The $6.5-billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland -- which is ...

The genomes of modern birds tell a story of how they emerged and evolved after the mass extinction that wiped out dinosaurs and almost everything else 66 million years ago. That story is now coming to ...