Imagine zooming out on a giant family tree that includes every bird you have ever seen. Ostriches sprint across open plains, hummingbirds hover at flowers, penguins slice through cold seas, and eagles ...

Classifying birds by plumage and other anatomical features served scientists well over the centuries, but genetic analyses have opened up a world of detail about avian family ties. An international ...

An ambitious genetic analysis of deep avian history strongly supports some counterintuitive ideas about bird evolution that differ from the species groupings familiar in field guides. Falcons are more ...

The most ambitious effort yet to trace the evolutionary history and geography of living birds is ruffling the feathers of some old ideas. For the first time, the new avian family tree places each of ...

Researchers from Yale, Cornell and Florida State University released an updated and highly comprehensive evolutionary tree of birds last Wednesday in the journal Nature. The focus of the research was ...

There are many trees, shrubs & flowers that birds love, whether it’s the sight of juicy red berries. Keep reading for the ...

Tweets (the avian kind) are good for your health and happiness. The soundscape refers to the sum of the sounds emanating from a particular landscape. A pair of recent studies show that bird sounds ...