The HPAI strain of avian flu is infecting and killing birds in Missouri and Kansas. Several cases have been reported around ...

Bird feathers are unique wonders—born before birds, shared with dinosaurs, vital for flight, warmth, display, and survival.

A tropical bird’s feather structure inspires a new, wearable ultrablack fabric.

Researchers took inspiration from the magnificent riflebird while developing a textile that reflects only about 0.13 percent ...

Winters in the Colorado Rocky Mountains can be long and formidable. Before the snow flies, thousands of birds migrate each ...

Few birds represent Minnesota winters as perfectly as the black-capped chickadee. Small, round, and endlessly cheerful, this ...

It is common to say that something is as light as a feather in order to mean that something doesn’t weigh much at all. A ...

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 was enacted to provide federal protection to birds that travel between the United States and Canada. “The statute makes it unlawful without a waiver to pursue, ...

Woodpeckers have extraordinarily long tongues to locate and capture various hard-to-reach insects living inside the wood of trees.

A new study led by a researcher from the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv ...

A new fabric inspired by the feathers of the magnificent riflebird — a type of bird of paradise — is the darkest ever created, according to its inventors.

Just 20 days earlier, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig had exploded, killing 11 people and igniting one of the worst ...