This morning on my way to work, I saw two large herons fly overhead. It got me thinking about how this area of the Platte is ...

Observations at your bird feeder could help inform research being done at Cornell University and other institutions.

Nearly all birds with bright red, orange, and yellow feathers or bills use a group of pigments called carotenoids to produce ...

After wandering into a field with several barn cats, columnist Joyce Bupp suddenly found herself surrounded by a variety of ...

A common way ecologists predict population counts may be an unreliable way of forecasting future bird counts in urban areas, meaning scientists may be overestimating and underestimating the losses of ...

Australian finches' bill colors come from small genetic variations affecting how they process dietary pigments.

Hooper’s study examined variation in this trait across the whole distribution of the long-tailed finch in the wild, and variation in the genomes of the measured birds. It turned out bill colour in ...

Across the animal kingdom, birds are some of the most colourful creatures of all. But how did all the amazingly coloured ...

A local volunteer-based environmental organization is working to raise money to educate people both young and old. The ...

Already, early in the morning and scarcely 12 hours after the accident, scavenging birds had found the dead deer in the ditch. Scores of crows, ravens, magpies, and bald eagles were gathered at the ...

Something looked a little off at the birdfeeders. I get more house finches at my feeders than I can count, but as I entered the living room and glanced out ...