Black-capped chickadees have an incredible ability to remember where they've cached food in their environments. They are also small, fast, and able to fly. So how exactly can a neuroscientist ...

Like a pointed torpedo, a gannett bird enters the sea and the photo wins the Bird Photographer Of The Year competition. Here ...

Birds are famous for their exceptional skill of imitating sounds, with some being expert learners of human speech. Though parrots who talk are the center of attraction, there are many other talking ...

For more than 2,000 years, scientists have scratched their heads over one of the most basic mysteries of the natural world: Where do birds go? Billions of birds appear and disappear with the seasons ...

Birds are among the most captivating creatures in the animal kingdom, often finding themselves in precarious situations due to natural and human-made threats. Whether entangled in fishing lines, ...

7 amazing birds that can swim like Penguins We all know how skilled penguins are for their underwater agility, but, to our surprise, they are not the only birds that can swim remarkably underwater.

This year’s winners of the annual Audubon Photography Awards are an irresistible spectacle of the wonders of avian life. The annual competition marking its 13th year and organized by the Audubon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hummingbird migrations take place in spring and fall and those events are cause for excitement among many people. "They are the ...

Although it still feels like beach weather across much of North America, billions of birds have started taking wing for one of nature’s great spectacles: fall migration. Birds fly south from the ...

When we were kids we all learned that birds fly south for winter. Even though it was probably one of the first fascinating ...

Several bird species, including mynas, ring-necked parakeets, cockatiels, budgerigars, cockatoos, and eclectus parrots, possess impressive mimicry skills and can imitate human speech. These birds ...