To make accurate predictions, researchers need data on a complicated array of forces and factors, from big-picture elements ...

For more than a century, the USGS program has revealed crucial insights about where birds go, how they’re faring, and what we ...

It wasn’t the seabird carcasses that were unusual. Birds that die at sea frequently wash ashore. On regular surveys to tally bodies from Alaska to Central California, for example, volunteer data ...

Person 1: “Up there in that tree!” Person 2: “Which one?” Person 1: “The really green one!” Person 2: “They’re all really ...

The 20th century expansion of nectar feeders drove Anna’s Hummingbirds to spread across California—and transformed the birds ...

Birds don’t read books. It’s an obvious statement, but it reflects an important point: No matter how much we study and read about bird behavior, these creatures won't always do what they're "supposed ...

We spoke with some of the more than 150 blind and visually impaired birders who participated in the May celebration to learn ...

World Oceans Day is June 8, a global day of celebrating and committing to protecting the ocean and marine resources that ...

Who's Kenn? Simply put, Kenn is a national treasure. A renowned birder, author, and conservationist, Kenn Kaufman has spent his life dedicated to observing birds, reading about birds, writing about ...

For birders, researchers, and conservationists alike, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird platform has been a game changer. Not only can its crowdsourced data help you locate rare birds and ...

South Pelican Island belongs to the birds. Royal Terns circle and screech above this spit of sand and shrub, which juts out of North Carolina’s winding Cape Fear River. Grackles hop among the bushes ...

In the late 1990s, as an ecologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Martin Wikelski guesses he drove every mile of the Prairie State’s backroads in a two-toned Oldsmobile. But these ...