To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator ...

Birds are some of the most colorful animals on Earth, with a palette of rainbow tones to feast your eyes on. Here are our picks for some of our most flamboyant feathered friends.

A study of a bizarre prehistoric bird's fossilized remains has uncovered fascinating new details regarding its behavior. Living around 120 million years ago, the species, Longipteryx chaoyangensis ...

The large, white wading bird has a long, orange-yellow bill. During breeding season, great egrets develop long plumes on their back and lime-green skin around their eyes.

On a Friday afternoon in March, I’m standing at a workspace in the Feather ID Lab. In front of us is a goose corpse—wings tucked in, beak tightly closed, its plump belly facing the ceiling. There are ...

Tykee James, president of the DC Audubon Society, and Erin Connelly, holding her 10-month-old son, Louis, search in the treetops in Fort Slocum Park in Washington, D.C. Melissa Block/NPR hide caption ...

Some roughly 120-million-year-old seeds are telling a new story about what the Earth’s first birds ate. Paleontologists found the seeds in the fossilized stomachs of an early bird species ...