"I learned everything about parrots," she said. And, in that study, she found that when raising a bird like a parrot, allowing them to fly free helps to develop motor skills, muscles and contributes ...

When it comes to what birds have and what humans don’t, your mind might first land on the ability to fly. However, birds are also pretty good at navigating from the air… assuming, that is, they know ...

Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many other great questions in her book, The Bird Watching Answer Book. (For the ...

Some birds migrate thousands of miles every autumn. How exactly do they manage it? Scientists built a flight chamber to find out. Some birds migrate thousands of miles every autumn. How exactly do ...

Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found that when birds evolve ...

Scientists discovered that ostrich ancestors could fly across oceans. Later, they lost flight and adapted on land.

This is the time of year when the lingering summer shows us some signs of autumn just around the corner. The phasing out of summer’s oppressive heat and humidity is a welcome early harbinger of fall.

SAUGERTIES, N.Y. — A female barn owl that suffered a broken wing and two orphaned owlets taught how to be owls by the injured female recently reclaimed their places in the wild, after being given new ...

The mystery of how related flightless birds ended up so far apart on different continents may have been solved.

More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ostriches, and kiwi birds. In a new study in the journal Evolution, researchers ...