At night the birds often fly into the floodlight on deck, temporarily blinded. One of these birds I weighed on the laboratory balance, getting a reading of 37.8 grams (1.33 ounces).

Pollution is swept to pristine areas of the Arctic by wind and sea. But now researchers have pinned down an important mode of transport that creates local toxic hotspots: sea birds. Canadian ...

Discover the world's most amazing flightless birds—like ostriches, penguins, and emus. Learn why they can't fly and how they've adapted to thrive on land and in water.

Using drone imagery, New Zealand researchers are evaluating a deep learning model called BirdDetector, as it analyzes ...

A flock of brown pelicans was released back into the wild near the Huntington Beach Pier. They had been nursed back to health ...

And as you watch the more familiar and conspicuous flocks like the Canadian geese fly overhead, think of these hearty and sometimes-elusive birds also making their journey south.

Sea birds can spread pollutants such as mercury and pesticides across the Arctic in their droppings, Canadian researchers reported Thursday. The finding, published in the journal Science ...

Salton Sea's crashing ecosystem Like scanning a dying roadside motel for signs of life, scientists in recent years had increasingly despaired of finding major bird life at the ever-saltier, ever ...