Imagine zooming out on a giant family tree that includes every bird you have ever seen. Ostriches sprint across open plains, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The ostrich is the tallest bird that inhabits the planet ...

Çağan Şekercioğlu was an ambitious, but perhaps naive graduate student when, 26 years ago, he embarked on a simple data-compilation project that would soon evolve into a massive career-defining ...

Up to 30% of bird diversity hotspots, places where large numbers of different bird species occur, in the western United ...

Scientists are on the hunt for over 120 species of birds that may—or may not—be extinct, and they want your help to find them. The ubiquity of smartphones has led to surge in data for birders and ...

While the exact number is difficult to gauge, there are approximately between 11,000 and 20,000 different bird species. Out of all these species, 12% of all living birds, approximately 1,200 species, ...

Research led by UC Santa Cruz finds that both non-native and native birds play a key role in the transmission of a disease ...

Up to 30% of bird diversity hotspots in the western U.S. are projected to face high-severity wildfires in the future.

The Everglades seldom benefit from invasive species. But now, as non-native apple snails disappear, the endangered Everglades bird, the snail kite, is paying the price.

Many semipalmated plovers and dunlins ran along the sand while sanderlings darted in and out of the water. Herons, egrets and pelicans displayed dancing, flying, and diving behavior as a belted ...

Mangaluru: As many as 58 bird species were documented on the campus of Yenepoya (Deemed to be University) during the Campus ...