In his home office in Durham, Duke neuroscientist Richard Mooney shows a series of images of a bird's brain on song. In one, ...

Thomas Vilgis, a food physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany, has been in love with foie gras ...

Each spring, hundreds of thousands of swans, geese, cranes and other waterfowl descend on a Montana lake on their way to the Arctic. A small town festival draws thousands of bird fans.

By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Birds are fairly odd creatures, but among the odd are the oddest — strange and wacky evolutions that perfectly suit their ecological niche while appearing alien and ...

Why Birds Need Native Plants Native plants for birds are like Mom’s home cooking. They’re the tried-and-true foods that keep ...

I’ve heard that a single ostrich egg is big enough to make an omelette for a whole family. —Anonymous, N.Y.C. Eight years ago ...

Not content with handling one of Birmingham’s most distinct restaurants (The Wilderness), chef-patron Alex Claridge opened ...

Other prize winners are Jim Sladky of Oxford, who won Leupold BX-2 Alpine HD 52mm binoculars, and Larry Gathye Sr. of Omaha, who won a $150 Scheels gift card. Youth winners, and their prizes, are ...

In a surprising twist, an 80-year-old tree has been given a "stay of execution" by an Aussie council that was planning to ...

In a surprising twist, an 80-year-old tree has been given a "stay of execution" by an Aussie council that was planning to ...

At least 112 North American bird species have lost more than half their populations in the past 50 years, according to a new ...

Bailey, my 9-year-old black Lab, and I were out for our first walk of the morning the other day when I heard the unmistakable ...