On Nov. 1, the American Ornithological Society announced that it would be renaming all the birds under its purview that…
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The two lappet-faced vultures had been together for just a few months, yet the massive birds, with their watchful, featherless…
A new study highlights both the promise and the limitations of gene editing, as a highly lethal form of avian…
For every devoted birder, there is a bird that continues to elude sighting.
I open the pantry door and the eastern phoebe flies off the nest. Her cup-shaped home is made of mud,…
The association with the naturalist John James Audubon is “problematic” for a local group seeking to be more inclusive.
Not straying far from the zoo but not going back either, a bird of prey on the loose faces serious…
After leaving his damaged Central Park Zoo enclosure the night before, a Eurasian eagle-owl was the subject of an intense…
A new book borrows from the slow food movement to propose a more thoughtful, less competitive form of bird-watching.
In Colorado’s Rockies, birds and other animals stand out against the snow, and even if you can’t see them, their…