Tag: Birds

When birds strike buildings in Chicago, they sometimes end up in the Field Museum of Natural History, where they’re kept as specimens. This unique collection has helped give researchers a...

To communicate with each other, birds use songs, calls and plumage. But they also use scent, thanks to oil glands above the tail — and maybe also, according to recent...

Birds don’t pay much attention to state lines and national borders. Many have a tendency to fly right over them. And since bird surveys are time consuming and expensive, they...

Researchers captured footage of a male eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis) feeding young tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) while studying the effects of gas compressor noise on songbird reproduction behavior in nest...

Just because they’re designated as state birds doesn’t mean they’ll be in their states in a century. “As the planet warms and birds across the country relocate to escape the...

Wildlife managers are seeing initial success after three years of translocating more than 400 lesser prairie-chickens into a sagebrush prairie environment straddling Kansas and Colorado. “Everybody’s still very excited, still...

A lone female of one of the world’s rarest birds was sighted recently in a Brazil forest reserve. Stresemann’s bristlefront (Merulaxis stresemanni) is listed as critically endangered by the International...

Creating patterns on glass by adding material or making etchings can drastically reduce the danger buildings pose to birds, according to new research in which scientists used a novel device...

Biologists have caught the first video footage ever of a rare shorebird nest in Russia’s remote far east. Scientists had not seen Nordmann’s greenshanks (Tringa guttifer), listed as endangered by...

Wind energy is one way to cut greenhouse gas emissions, but it can also impact wildlife. A new report, “Impacts to Wildlife of Wing Energy Sting and Operation in the...