Only two bird species have ever been shown to undertake what scientists call 'itinerant breeding': nesting in one area, migrating to another region, and nesting again there within the same year, to ...

As temperatures dip low in the Northern Hemisphere's deep midwinter, many birds are no doubt feasting on the seeds and suet hanging outside many of our homes. More than 40 percent of U.S. households ...

I’ve recently been doing surveys for Marin’s Breeding Bird Atlas project. The basic idea is this: divide the county up into 221 blocks of about 1,500 acres each, recruit skilled volunteer observers to ...

Noise pollution is affecting bird behavior across the globe, disrupting everything from courtship songs to the ability to find food and avoid predators, a large-scale new analysis showed on Wednesday.

Reproduction and migration are the two most demanding tasks in a bird's life, and the vast majority of species separate them into different times of the year. Only two bird species have been shown to ...