We’re only halfway through summer in the Northern Hemisphere, but for our feathered friends, fall migration is underway. The ...

The government is approving more than $100 million in federal grant money for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for wetland ...

It’s a bit of a mystery where some birds go when they leave Alaska for the winter. A recent tracking project on the ...

Yet billions of birds, especially migratory songbirds like warblers, vireos, thrushes, hummingbirds and orioles that breed in North America winter in the tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The migratory cues that birds rely on are myriad: temperature, day length, landforms, the stars, even the Earth’s magnetic field, as well as the instructions coded in their genetics.

A new study shows environmental conditions in migratory birds' winter homes carry over to affect their ability to survive spring migration and the breeding season. A new study from researchers at ...

Yet billions of birds, especially migratory songbirds like warblers, vireos, thrushes, hummingbirds and orioles that breed in North America winter in the tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The majority of those birds fly at night and typically start their migration about 30 to 45 minutes post-sunset, with peak flights between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.

That’s a decline of one-third in four years. That means a loss of more than 1,500 birds. The songbird’s global numbers ...

The captured birds are then sold illegally, sometimes to unsuspecting buyers. These actions are in violation of federal law, which protects migratory birds from unlawful capture, trade, and harm.