Migrating birds travel thousands of miles each year between breeding and wintering grounds. Along the way, they must pause to ...

From porch lights to dryer vents, birds can nest in the most unexpected spots. Here’s how to make those places less appealing ...

Use physical barriers like mesh, wire, or by sealing holes and cracks to prevent birds from building nests in unwanted spots.

Windows and lights pose a hazard to birds, particularly during peak migration season. (Jamie Franics, The Oregonian, 2009) On Wednesday, Portland City Council approved a resolution endorsing ...

Light pollution has steadily intensified and expanded from urban areas, and with the advent of LED lighting, it is growing in North America by up to 10% per year, as measured by the visibility of ...

Each year, nearly 2 billion birds migrate through Texas in one of the planet’s great wildlife spectacles. Birds have intrigued me since I was a little girl. My mother was a knowledgeable, self-taught ...

Birds tend to be more colorful in the tropics, and scientists wanted to find out how they got there: if colorful feathers evolved in the tropics, or if tropical birds have brightly-colored ancestors ...

One of the first toothed birds ever discovered, Hesperornis paddled with its hind feet to hunt fish and evade marine reptiles in warm, Cretaceous seas. UnexpectedDinoLesson via Wikimedia under CC ...

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