In prior bird flu outbreaks, there’ve been several documented cases of feline-to-feline spread, but ingestion seems to be the ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressed the worsening avian flu crisis, saying vaccinating birds turns them into “mutation factories.

New research has provided fresh insights into how bird songs evolve over time, revealing a significant role for population dynamics in shaping song diversity and change. The findings are based on an ...

A tiny bird in Australia has been spotted using fake hawk alarm calls to scare threats away from their nests to protect their ...

Birds change their tune over time depending on age, movement and memory, similar to how human dialects are shaped, ...

A large-scale comparative study suggests that some birds have evolved mechanisms to avoid the harmful effects of high blood sugar, granting insights into metabolism and ageing.

Birds are breathing in high levels of airborne microplastics into their lungs—and, likely, so are we, with unclear effects on ...

Conservation strategies are turning back the doomsday clock in threatened Florida-Scrub Jays—but not without caveats, a new ...

Large, undisturbed forests are better for harboring biodiversity than fragmented landscapes, according to University of ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds.

New research from the University of Oxford has provided fresh insights into how bird songs evolve over time. The analysis is based on over 100,000 songs.

A survey of museum specimens reveals that more than a dozen species of the birds sport biofluorescence in feathers, skin or even inside their throats.