With more than 10,000 bird species on Earth, narrowing down the most beautiful is no simple task. From shimmering tropical ...

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You probably don't worry too much about birds (other than what birds are at your feeder). However, around the world there are some birds that can prove extremely dangerous to humans. These in ...

"Birds of the World, a powerful new resource that brings together scholarly content from four celebrated works of ornithology--Birds of North America and Neotropical Birds (originally published by the ...

Nature often displays its beauty in the form of colours, and birds are one of the most colourful examples of this. Some ...

William Feeney receives funding from the Spanish National Research Council. He has previously received funding from the Queensland Government, Hermon Slade Foundation, Seaworld Research and Rescue ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There are thousands of bird species that inhabit planet ...

Flightless birds have had a rough go of it over the past few centuries, with many going extinct — the most iconic being the dodo bird. But not all have perished. Here are four flightless birds that ...