Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

Lawmakers considered the goldfinch. Kids liked the scarlet tanager best. The whole thing took more than three decades.

When most people talk about Lake Mac, they have visions of warm, sunny days cruising in a boat or maybe fishing for trophy-sized fish from the shores of this large lake in western Nebraska. But for ...

A trip to a local pond brings a whole new respect knowing the beaked inhabitants evolved when T-Rexes were still around.

The female will produce a clutch of 3 to 4 white eggs and will lay them directly on a layer of fresh wood chips at the bottom of the newly excavated nest cavity. Both birds will take turns incubating ...

Jim Abrams offers insight on one of his favorite jobs as a game protector for the Division of Wildlife: placing and maintaining wood duck nesting boxes.

A new and nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai discovered in Antarctica suggests that modern birds originated before the end ...

From cherry blossom pink to duck egg blue, we look to the natural world to create the most successful brown colour schemes ...

Hundreds of acres of wood pasture habitat are being created in a scheme to boost native songbirds and other wildlife ...

I woke up with a splitting headache and bloody sinuses. Every muscle in my body ached and I was utterly exhausted even after ...

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

When America’s founding fathers affixed a bald eagle to the Great Seal of the United States in 1782, they likely had no idea ...