The bald eagle is the national bird and symbol of the United States. In 1782, the Continental Congress adopted the bald eagle ...

These birds don’t just use their beaks for eating or survival; in many cases, their colourful bills play important roles in communication, mating displays, or even regulating body temperature ...

Over time, natural selection favored finches with sharper, longer beaks. These birds were better equipped to quickly and easily pierce the skin of their booby bird neighbors.

The bald eagle, a symbol of the nation for more than 200 years, returned from near extinction to become America's official bird.

The birds land here each spring to feast on horseshoe crab eggs. The poop they leave behind may hold clues to the next pandemic.

HOUSTON — Residents along Brays Bayou are worried about a bird that has found itself in a precarious situation. The blue heron has trash stuck on its beak, preventing it from eating.

By studying beaks in light of this mathematical rule, we can understand how the faces of birds and other dinosaurs evolved over 200 million years.

An injured seven-pound bald eagle is being treated at the World Bird Sanctuary in Valley Park, Missouri, after it was shot. It is also suffering from lead poisoning.