If there’s one common theme to this week’s bird news items, it’s their collective bizarreness: The eagle has landed—on...

There’s lots of disheartening stuff going on in the bird world this week, so let’s start with some love...

What is sex? This is a simple question with a complicated answer. Part of the answer is this: The...

“Everything counts in large amounts …” That lyric may be all well and good for Depeche Mode (make that,...

Birds are a subset of dinosaurs (See: Honey, I Shrunk the Dinosaurs. Prior to the extinction of all of...

A new paper out this month attempts to paint the most comprehensive picture yet of the origins and diversification...

The colorful Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) lives in wetlands from Portugal and Senegal all the way east to New...

The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of...