This morning, the barn swallows that nested on our Texas property last year returned to their old nest. Same chirpy chit chat ...

Shorebirds travel across continents every year and connect distant ecosystems through their journeys. A bird feeding in one ...

Migrating birds travel thousands of miles each year between breeding and wintering grounds. Along the way, they must pause to ...

Van Doren plans to explore the mechanisms of vagrancy and how that process might feed into the evolutionary establishment of new migration routes. In the meantime, he’s urging other ornithologists to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bird migration represents one of nature’s most remarkable phenomena, where millions of feathered travelers navigate thousands of ...

New research from the Shorebird Science and Conservation Collective at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation ...

Billions of birds are on the move or getting ready to depart for spring migration. Warblers, shorebirds, waterfowl, raptors ...

When it comes to what birds have and what humans don’t, your mind might first land on the ability to fly. However, birds are also pretty good at navigating from the air… assuming, that is, they know ...

Millions of birds pass through and above the Champaign-Urbana area on their way to warmer southern regions during the fall and winter migration period. At its peak, migratory numbers over C-U are in ...

PARIS -- A bird flu strain found in Europe represents a major threat to the poultry industry in countries crossed by migrating wild birds, two intergovernmental organizations say. Germany, the ...

On a 2009 hike in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona, a group of birders heard an otherworldly, ethereal bird song floating, flute-like, through the canyon. The hikers identified the ...

A Blackpoll Warbler on Southeast Farallon Island in California is one example of the many birds that wind up as vagrants - well outside their normal range. A new study from the University of Illinois, ...