There exists a strange and unnerving phenomenon that one of our news producers experienced this morning, that feels like it could be an omen for... something. He awoke to the sound of banging from ...

Millions of birds invisibly migrate through the night sky each autumn, most flying in near silence toward their wintering ...

Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many other great questions in her book, The Bird Watching Answer Book. (For the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Most birds fly at low altitudes, relatively speaking. But ...