National Bird Day 2025 highlights how bird population changes reveal environmental stress and ecosystem health worldwide.

“It shows that all of nature is in constant flux and changing on some scale. This one is a dramatic change. It’s the ...

American naturalist Henry David Thoreau wrote that “all the laws of nature will bend and adapt themselves to the least motion of man.” More than 150 years later, Thoreau's assessment has proven true.

Red-backed shrikes, small songbirds in northern Europe, show that birds migrate with remarkable precision. Each year, these birds travel about 12,400 miles between Scandinavia and southern Africa.

Spring marks an exciting time for bird lovers, as many species make their way back north to look for food and to nest during this season. While the exact timing of peak spring bird migration varies ...

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. A social media trend revealed a few years ago that men think about the Roman Empire, the most impressive one in human history, more often than they probably ever ...

A new study looks at bird migration patterns over open ocean in an attempt to assess how much risk offshore wind turbines and other marine infrastructure might pose to them. The authors used radar ...

Each year, as winter approaches, many bird species undertake an exhausting migration, sometimes hundreds or even thousands of miles long. Birds will fly south to find more temperate climates, which is ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It’s been a big week for bird migration, and Central Texas has been part of it. More than a billion birds were recorded as being on the move Wednesday night as they fly south for the ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – It’s officially “bird watch” as it’s the time of year for multiple species of the avian kind to travel south for the winter. Autumn bird migration usually peaks in the northern ...