The birds have been in an environmental updraft since the early 2000s, when the U.S. government took them off its endangered species list.

The American dipper, a drab-looking bird no larger than a robin, is a splashy rarity: a songbird that swims and even walks underwater. This round-bodied gray bird with short wings and a stubby tail is ...

Did you know that Wisconsin is home to some of the largest aggregations of Little Brown Bats in North America and a significant proportion of the international population of this ...

“For nearly 250 years, we called the bald eagle the national bird when it wasn’t,” said Jack Davis, co-chair of the National ...

Use expert tips and a helpful chart to improve your hawk identification skills. Plus, learn about the common types of hawks ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

Watch your backyard come to life as amazing owl species swoop through the night skies. Get to know the types of owls you ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

In this forest thick with trees up to 600 years old lives the southernmost population of the California condor (Gymnogyps ...

A dead wild bird found in North Austin this month has tested positive for bird flu, Austin Public Health and the Texas Department of State Health Services confirm. Austin Public Health on ...

A highly pathogenic H5N1 virus has been circulating in wild birds in North America since late 2021, causing sporadic ...

Six dairy herds in Nevada have tested positive for a newer variant of the H5N1 bird flu virus that’s been associated with ...