Some 144 bird species had not been seen in at least a decade, but a project by conservation organizations proposes they all may still be hidden somewhere in the wild. Clockwise from top left: Santa ...

Not all birds can fly. Some birds have lost the ability to take to the skies. These are called flightless birds. They belong to different parts of the world and have unique features. Flightless birds ...

Sociable Weavers build the largest communal nests, housing over a hundred families. Bowerbirds create decorated bowers purely for courtship, not for raising young. Malleefowl incubate eggs using heat ...

Let’s face it, some animals have cooler names than others. For example, how could the blobfish ever hope to compete with the hellbender or the goblin shark? Typically, animals get their names from a ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — When Jory Langner finds time for a field trip during an upcoming visit to Washington, he won’t have to ask local birders where to find candidates to add to his life list of birds ...

A SINGLE work giving a complete list of the birds of the world had not been published for more than thirty years, during which time very many new forms had been described and much revision had been ...

Birders visiting Sanibel and Captiva have a new resource when scanning the brush and beaches with binoculars for fine-feathered flocks. The Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation compiled a ...

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THE appearance of the first volume of this most useful adjunct to the work of the scientific ornithologist has already been welcomed in NATURE. It is a book purely for reference, consisting of a ...