When we think about birds, we often picture their colorful plumage: the iridescence of a peacock's tail or the electric blue flash of a kingfisher. Or we might consider how they use voices, from the ...

More than 200 birds, including an emu and a peacock, that were rescued from a Pima County property earlier this month due to alleged chronic neglect and welfare concerns have caused overcrowding at ...

The adorable Puppy Bowl will be back. The original and longest running call-to-adoption television event returns for its 22nd year on Super Bowl Sunday, February 8. It kicks off at 2 PM ET/11 AM PT ...

Delaware’s official wildlife animal is not a bird from its coastal marshes or a creature from the Atlantic surf. Instead, it is a small, tree-climbing fox that moves easily between farm fields and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. These three bird courtship displays are so bold, precise ...

Officials are asking for information about the beheading and dumping of a variety of domestic birds in Dedham last weekend. Dedham Animal Control asked for the public’s help to identify the people ...

It's flu season, especially for birds. A sanctuary in Iowa says the disease is wreaking havoc on the avian population. Iowa Bird Rehabilitation says it is trying to contain the outbreak by taking in ...

DEDHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - Dedham Animal Control is turning to the public for help identifying the person responsible for beheading and dumping a variety of domestic birds off a bridge and onto the ice of ...

Animal Planet is the place where people go to watch feel-good shows about animals. But now it's put more emphasis behind the cool people helping the animals than the animals themselves. Problem is, ...

From extinction to rebirth, here’s a breakdown of how the takahē — one of Earth’s rarest birds — came back from an evolutionary death sentence. The takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri) is a large, ...

UW graduate student Lauren Wetterau attaches a wildlife camera to a tree to document biodiversity at a forest site in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem. She is one of the UW scientists featured in ...