Armored catfish are driving manatees out of their warm-water refuges, putting their health at risk. Here’s why it’s happening ...

Merlin Bird ID is a free app that helps determine which bird you saw or heard. The app, designed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, was designed to answer the commonly asked question: "What bird ...

Experienced birders said they’ve learned how to look at a sea of black, when birds such as starlings, red-winged blackbirds, ...

Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods both sell binocular harnesses. One great birding app is Merlin. It IDs birds by their songs so you can tell which birds are around when you’re walking ...

Local residents are being asked to join millions around the globe taking part in the 2025 Great Backyard Bird Count. Held from Friday, Feb. 14 through Monday, Feb. 17, the observations that result ...

Thousands of birds staged a fascinating aerial show in Dongying, China, forming the silhouette of a giant dolphin and then a snake in the sky. Scientists detect 'alien' signal from distant galaxy ...

Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on pandemics since 2009 and is the ...

Now, Crescent Duck Farm is the only one left. It produced a million ducks a year, until two weeks ago, when bird flu shut the farm down. Corwin said, "I saw a flock one day that was great ...

To analyze what ended up being a gigantic amount of data, Van Doren and his colleagues used machine-learning technology with a customized version of Merlin, a bird-call-identification app ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

A subtype of bird flu caused by avian influenza A (H5) virus has been spreading worldwide in wild birds with a few outbreaks in poultry, dairy cows and other mammals across the United States ...