Is there no aspect of human life that hasn’t been offered an unrequested helping hand from technology? Is there a drowsy Luddite left on the planet who hasn’t one way or another been forced to wince ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In City Park, on man-made islands in man-made lakes, tall, old trees offer refuge to large colonies of wading birds. The park provides breeding habitat for ...

A visual pathway links brain structures active during magnetic compass orientation in migratory birds. Every year millions of migratory birds fly towards their wintering quarters and come back in next ...

Birds don’t carry smartphones under their wings. When they migrate, GPS isn’t telling them exactly when to turn left and right, or when they’ve “arrived” at their final destination. Instead, they ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Eurasian reed warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) used in the study ...

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The public is invited to join DuPage Birding Club members on the following winter field trips. All skill levels are welcome, including beginners and children ages 10 and up. For more information, ...

Sure, birds can be annoying. On Portland’s Sauvie Island now, snow geese unnervingly dominate the sky like a Hitchcock horror film, and aptly named cackling geese create such an unrelentingly racket ...

To find north, humans look to a compass. But birds may just need to open their eyes, a new study says. Scientists already suspected birds' eyes contain molecules that are thought to sense Earth's ...

Some Chicago birds are nesting nearly a month earlier than they did more than a century ago. And like some other shifts happening around the Great Lakes region as temperatures rise and the timing of ...

BROCKTON — D.W. Field Park partially reopened to the public on Friday after being closed for three weeks over concerns about bird flu. "D.W. Field Park is now reopen to the public," the city of ...