Climate change has now become one of the biggest threats to ecosystems globally, as global cycles that have helped species thrive for centuries have shifted. Birds in particular, for their elaborate ...

Some birds rely on Earth’s magnetic field to navigate and it now seems that one species can also use it to judge when it has reached home. One problem for birds using the magnetic field as a map is ...

Scientists have started to notice that, like their counterparts breeding in temperate latitudes, tropical birds exhibit migratory behaviors. Now Peter Marra, director of the Smithsonian Conservation ...

Bird watching enthusiasts across the state are being encouraged to get outside and submit their observations of breeding birds – the start of a five-year study to create the third New York State ...

After its fourth season of field work, volunteers with the Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas II have documented 225 species of breeding birds in the Badger State, including 13 species not found in the ...

Spring is one of the most important seasons to support the garden birds in your backyard. It's the time of year birds begin nesting and breeding, and they could do with the support of gardeners to ...

Forest ecologist report finding ''clear evidence of a contraction of the breeding period'' among boreal birds in Finland over a 43-year span for which good quality data were available. In a new study ...

New research finds surprising differences in the diets and gut microbiomes of songbirds living in the radiation contaminated areas of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine. This study is also the ...

When it comes to fidelity, birds fit the bill: Over 90 percent of all bird species are monogamous and — mostly — stay faithful, perhaps none more famously than the majestic albatross. Albatross ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The dunlin - a wading bird - is on the UK's red list of threatened species [Chris Gomersall] An endangered wading bird has been ...