Cowbirds are special among songbirds for the "watery" timbre of their singing, which resembles the sound of falling droplets ...

Plus, pocket-sized owls hooting, few family reunions in the bird world and a visit by robins’ handsome cousin.

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship on Tuesday confirmed a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a ...

I’m a big fan of photography. I’ve been doing it for years, and I know my way around a camera. But I can’t even count how many times, mostly when I was younger, a random man—always a man—stopped me ...

In 1987, wildlife veterinarian Mark Pokras was in his office at Tufts University in Massachusetts when a colleague from New ...

The cultural stories attached to the turtle dove are so complicated, so varied, that you could well imagine them framing one ...

Trump’s former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon accused his old boss of rifling through Hillary Clinton’s playbook, ...

In the Himalayan forests, the satyr tragopan performs one of the bird world’s most dramatic courtship displays.

Ghassan Zaqtan's ‘An Old Carriage with Curtains’ concludes a landmark Palestinian trilogy, tracing memory, displacement and ...

This year's snowy owl migration is marked by the bird's recent classification as a threatened species by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.

Many of Istanbul's visitors are unaware that the city is home to half-a-millennium-old stone-carved bird houses that reflect the Ottomans' reverence for the animals. On a corner lot in Istanbul's old ...