Birds are always up to something, and these entries captured an array of avians doing everything from impaling prey to ...

Myers is a columnist and contributing editor for Birds & Blooms magazine and was commissioned by Summit for her expertise to write this article. Myers’ website is www.MelindaMyers.com.

He filmed the flight of hummingbirds inside a homemade wind tunnel, capturing them at speeds up to 27 miles an hour. As the birds accelerated from a hovering position, Greenewalt documented the ...

Generations of local rosarians know the mid-February holiday as the red-letter date for romancing their roses. It’s when we ...

Some Chicago murals “are political, and some are purely beautiful, and most are somewhere in between," artist Cyd Smillie ...

CONCORD, N.H. — Let’s shift our focus and talk about something other than politics for a minute: If you looked outside your ...

The ancestors of modern waterfowl weren’t all that odd. Diving for fish and other prey in the waters of Antarctica, they looked like today’s birds, but were they truly modern? Around 20 years ago, a ...

But as for me, I think I’ll stick to my wicked old birds and their unique, charismatic blend of virtue and vice. This column first appeared in the December Issue 953 of the FLYING print edition.

Birds have many features that distinguish them from other animals alive today, but their earliest ancestors looked noticeably different from the familiar creatures we’ve come to recognise. Although ...