As the old saw goes, birds of a feather flock together—and more often than not, those birds resemble one another, versus birds that live...

“Good fences make good neighbors,” wrote poet Robert Frost. While his poem was about the dubious nature of boundaries kept in check by surly...

Those of you who have been waiting with bated breath for the past few months in anticipation can finally exhale: Canada has a new national...

The world’s biggest flying bird—the Sarus Crane, with a maximum of height of 6 feet/1.8 meters—has had a rough go of it. Due to habitat encroachment and...

Since I got literally three scattered hours of sleep last night—which is not enough for me, much less the mini-me inside who’s more than...

Score one for the good guys. After invasive rats had effectively extirpated Manx Shearwaters from two of the Isles of Scilly—British islands off the southwestern...

“Everything counts in large amounts …” That lyric may be all well and good for Depeche Mode (make that, Rock and Roll Hall of...

It’s been a head-scratcher for quite some time.  What’s with the yellow-shafted Northern Flickers in the eastern U.S. bearing some orange feathers? (As in the photo above,...