Browsing: Birds

Golden autumn sunlight glints through the sedges and shrubs of the tundra in northern Alaska. Winter is approaching, and soon the region will be buried under…

The kākāpō is the world’s only flightless parrot. It’s come back from the brink of extinction, but its future in New Zealand depends on creating habitat…

Kiwi are a national icon in New Zealand, the only place the flightless birds are found. Invasive animals, brought to the country by European settlers, have…

Miranda Zamarelli and Dick Holmes of Dartmouth College review one of the early paper maps used to chart songbird territories in a patch of woods in…

A new study finds that light pollution makes birds’ days last longer. Rasit Aydogan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Rasit Aydogan/Anadolu Agency via…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.H5N1 bird flu has been making a lot of headlines since last year, and for good reason:…

An oriental magpie-robin perches on a tree branch in Bangkok in 2022. The bird was among the species that researchers studied in a rainforest in India.…

Not every farmer is thrilled to host birds. Some worry about the spread of avian flu, others are concerned that the birds will eat too much…

Providing every new home with at least one “swift brick” to help endangered cavity-nesting birds has been rejected by Labour at the committee stage of its…