Birds worldwide share a nearly identical warning cry to fend off nest parasites, despite being separated by millions of years. The discovery reveals how instinct and learning can merge, offering new ...

Most phylogenies exist in academic papers and remain difficult to interpret. Cornell’s Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer puts those relationships into a visual, searchable tool. Users can explore ...

Ornithologists with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have stitched together the most complete avian evolutionary tree ever, unveiling surprising relationships and offering bird lovers the illustrated ...

If you're hoping to increase biodiversity in your yard and invite more wildlife, one of the best things to do is put out some bird feeders. This provides supplemental sustenance for the winged ...

Hybrid AI bird identification system combining visual detection (Hailo-8 NPU detection & TensorFlow Lite classification) with audio recognition (BirdNET) on Raspberry Pi 5. Outdoor IP camera, indoor ...

A newly described species of Tinamou bird may already be at risk of extinction. Adult female Slaty-masked Tinamou (Tinamus resonans). (Credit: Luis Morais / National Museum of Brazil.) A team of ...

Using camera traps, ornithologists have photographed a previously unknown species of jewel-babbler in the forested karst of the Southern Fold Mountains in Papua New Guinea. The newly-identified ...

A hunter in Ohio was fined nearly $400 for shooting and killing a protected bird species. CBS affiliate WHIO reported, citing a spokesperson from the Ohio Division of Wildlife, that the hunter was ...

A backyard bird in suburban San Antonio turned out to be something extraordinary: the natural offspring of a green jay and a blue jay. The parents belong to lineages separated by about seven million ...

Two new species of bird-dropping crab spiders have been discovered in Malaysia and the Philippines, according to a study. Polina Koroleva Unsplash A scientist has discovered two new species of crab ...