Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The dunlin - a wading bird - is on the UK's red list of threatened species [Chris Gomersall] An endangered wading bird has been ...

Although it still feels like beach weather across much of North America, billions of birds have started taking wing for one of nature’s great spectacles: fall migration. Birds fly south from the ...

Before the mass-breeding programs of the early 20th century, turkeys took roughly 28 weeks to get to their full size, growing at an estimated rate of about 0.75 to 1 pound per week, according to one ...

Climate change has now become one of the biggest threats to ecosystems globally, as global cycles that have helped species thrive for centuries have shifted. Birds in particular, for their elaborate ...

Noise pollution is affecting bird behavior across the globe, disrupting everything from courtship songs to the ability to find food and avoid predators, a large-scale new analysis showed on Wednesday.

Manlius, NY — Village officials last month met a state deadline by submitting a request to keep its mute swans on the Manlius Swan Pond. The application included a plan to allow the birds to breed.

This June 18, 2016 photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows a Yellow Warbler in Nome, Alaska. Growth of shrubs on Arctic tundra as the climate warms will have a mixed effect on breeding ...

Birds live by timing more than almost any other creature. Not by clocks on walls or dates on calendars, but by internal rhythms that tell them when to wake, when to rest, when to sing, when to migrate ...