Bette Midler, conservationist and star of screen and stage, has a thing for birds. “I...

Roughly 10 percent of the world’s birds — about a thousand species — are songbirds...

I looked over at the calendar the other day and literally almost jumped halfway across...

A recent proposal (555) to the AOU’s South American Classification Committee deals with newly published...

The oldest division in the great avian tree lies between the ratites and tinamous (the...

Many of us in North America are facing the imminent departure of “our” hummingbirds for...

We humans often understand things by exploring their relationships. Ourselves, for instance; just consider how...

The American Ornithologists’ Union published the 53rd supplement (PDF) to its North American list last...