The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

Darin McNeil, Ph.D., an assistant professor of wildlife management in the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, is partnering with the University of ...

Imagine a world without birds. Just now, a jet-black, golden-eyed currawong flew low past my study window, changing the view. Yet, as Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris tell us in “The Book of Birds: ...

Once widespread in Japan, the colorful birds went from being fairly commonplace in the country to being on the verge of extinction. By Ephrat Livni Asian crested ibises have been revered and reviled ...

The small Cessna Caravan accelerates down the runway and climbs into the air, all while the pilot beside me keeps his hands off the controls. “Let’s see those jazz hands,” jokes Tim Burns, chief ...

Bird migration researchers are urging Michiganders to turn out their outdoor lights Thursday night, May 21, as 6.7 million birds are predicted to fly over the state. Experts recommend turning off ...

Bird migration researchers predict 12.1 million birds will fly over Michigan on Monday night, May 18, and are urging people across the state to turn out their outdoor lights at night to aid the ...

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MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Monday night, millions of birds will fly over Wisconsin during one of the busiest migration nights of the season. Scientists are issuing a statewide "Lights Out" alert asking ...

Crowds ebbed and flowed along East Lawther Drive near the White Rock Lake Stone Tables for a glance at the bald eagles and their babies Thursday afternoon. Some knew exactly where to look, having ...

One day, a preschool teacher colleague told me this story: “I was teaching a lesson about birds, how they make their nests, and about how they take care of their eggs. I was using these large posters ...