Whether they’re fat pigeons waddling on the subway platforms or a raven crying “nevermore” on your mantel, America is filled with birds: over 730 distinct species, all flapping, squawking, and ...

The more evidence we gather about the evolution of birds, the more likely it seems that they evolved from dinosaurs. But when, exactly, did birds split from their awe-inspiring cousins? A new ...

What do a pigeon and a flamingo have in common? Quite a bit, according to a reordering of the evolutionary tree of birds. One of a series of studies published Thursday in Science is the latest step ...

The barking owl is one of the 53 endangered bird species featured on the album. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons In a surprising twist, an album of bird songs winged its way ahead of Grammy-winning ...