"Identify them, count them, and submit your counts to help scientists better understand and protect birds around the world" is the stirring call to action. The Great Backyard Bird Count is a global ...

Budgies, also called shell parakeets and lovebirds, are a type of small domesticated parakeet also native to Australia. They are popular pets and are bred in captivity in a wide variety of colors, ...

A Bay Area artist is using her passion for birds and other coastal animals to bring a unique perspective to St. Pete Artworks this month.

Tap, tap, tap. My secret Valentine will not be dissuaded and keeps tapping on the bay window. Earlier this morning, at ...

While the man-made and woman-made gusts and microbursts whip Washington, D.C., into chaos, the only disturbances here are at ...

Quaker parrots are one of the most affectionate birds, even though they're small! They love being able to come out of their ...

A newly discovered fossil in Antarctica, estimated to be 68 million years old, reveals the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis ...

Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Inside a chilly enclosure, a 7-year-old peregrine falcon named Breland plucked at a frozen rat carcass with her beak, tearing off patches of fur and flesh with little head jerks ...

Experienced birders said they’ve learned how to look at a sea of black, when birds such as starlings, red-winged blackbirds, ...

This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features ...