Recently I looked into a number of extinct birds from all around the world, but few of them shed light on those that I would've lived alongside. Today we're "borrowing" my mom's field guide on the ...

Analyzing a leg bone from a fossil site in Colombia, scientists have identified a massive “terror bird” that lived about 12 ...

A Canadian teenager is currently in critical condition after contracting a suspected case of H5N1 bird flu, a British ...

Experts and health authorities say that while the risk of human infection with the H5N1 strain of avian influenza remains low ...

The bird is believed to be a scarlet tanager, which arrived in Shelf, near Halifax, after being blown off course by strong ...

The Iain Nicolson Audubon Center in Nebraska, at Rowe Sanctuary, is one of the best places in the entire country to witness the migration of sandhill cranes.

Great Auk: A flightless bird that lived in the North Atlantic, the great auk was hunted for its feathers and meat. It became extinct in the mid-19th century, with the last known individuals killed in ...

Phorusrhacid birds, better known as "terror birds," were some of the most impressive predators to ever walk the Earth.

“Birding with an experienced person during the Christmas Bird Count gives new birders a chance to spend a whole day with ...

While past terror bird fossils placed the meat-eating birds at 3 to 9 feet tall, new findings suggest that some were even ...

Terror birds were apex predators some 12 million years ago in South America. A newly published discovery could be the largest yet.