Have you ever caught a glimpse of a waterbird attempting to swallow a huge fish whole? If so, you might have wondered how in the world it would be able to swallow or even digest a fish that large, ...

ON May 23, 1833, John James Audubon, traveling on the U.S. revenue-cutter Swiftsure, landed on New Brunswick’s White Head Island to look for a particular bird. The bird in question would have been on ...

Woodpeckers have extraordinarily long tongues to locate and capture various hard-to-reach insects living inside the wood of trees.

As Earth’s climate changes, species must adapt, shift their geographical ranges, or face decline and, in some cases, extinction. Using genetics, biologists involved in the Bird Genoscape Project are ...

How does climate change influence how birds can adjust to different climate conditions worldwide? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a team of ...

Within the bird world, there are some crazy adaptations. For instance, there are birds larger than a man that can kick a hole through a car door. There are birds with bizarre and amazing courtship ...

Birds are all around us, and as such, we don't necessarily think about how incredible they are. These are creatures that descended from therapods, a group of two-legged dinosaurs to which the ...