Deadly drownings of animals in water canals for irrigation and other purposes have been observed in various countries. The ...

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

Northern Ireland has gone into an eight-week provincewide bird lockdown as the battle against an avian flu outbreak continues ...

Avian influenza spreads in birds, cows and other animals, and it can sometimes spread to people. In the United States, there ...

A photographer’s Covid-era hobby turned into a four-year project that produced around half a million photos. But one stood out from them all.

Nonstop flights direct from Iowa to Venezuela are rare, unless you happen to be a well-fed pectoral sandpiper. If it finds ...

The American dipper, a drab-looking bird no larger than a robin, is a splashy rarity: a songbird that swims and even walks underwater. This round-bodied gray bird with short wings and a stubby tail is ...

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following ...

Spotify Minnesota’s state bird is everywhere: There are loons on license plates and library cards, at lottery counters, and ...

Another theory, she says: "It could be that [animals] poop in the water and the other animals drink [that water]." Wild birds ...

The site has a long history of producing rare and scarce birds, with Elegant Tern, Pied-billed Grebe and various North American shorebirds among the list of unusual species recorded.

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...