Kathryn Betz of White Haven takes a photo of the first eagle the group spotted on Thursday morning, shortly after 11 a.m. The bird was a juvenile, so it did not yet have the characteristic white head ...

But because Eagle was the most powerful bird in the forest — with sharp flesh-tearing talons and a strong hook-shaped beak that could stun and kill its prey in an instant — all the other birds of the ...

Discover the clever ways birds survive winter, from sunbathing and feathery insulation to behavioral and metabolic tricks ...

Take a peek into the always entertaining lives of birds, from intimate moments with mates to fierce fights for territory.

In February, during a hike in two feet of snow along the Appalachian Trail in Cat Rocks near Pawling, N.Y., a flock of golden-crowned kinglets serenaded them when they stopped under the evergreens for ...

Paige Bueckers made sure to send something to Aaliyah Edwards as she was put into the rafters of UConn history.

Get facts about the red-winged blackbird, a black bird with red and yellow wings that is a sign of spring. Learn about their ...

A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude, from the nanoscale to the meter ...

A recent study led by a scientist from the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University analyzed dinosaur fossils that still retained their feathers and found ...

Understanding how birds learned to fly has fascinated scientists for decades. Feathers, wings, and flight are often seen as a straight line of progress from dinosaurs to modern birds. But new research ...

Paleontologists have examined the 160-million-year-old fossils of Anchiornis huxleyi, a species of non-avian theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation in northeastern China, ...