If you are the type who needs to psychologically prepare for the 30-mile drive down U.S. 36 to Denver, prepare to be humbled by a bird. During peak spring migration, birds passing through Boulder are ...

Bonn/Boulder/Incheon, 8 May 2026 – As millions of migratory birds cross continents and oceans, people across the planet are preparing to mark World Migratory Bird Day 2026, with the first peak day for ...

“Angry Birds” has been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame, located in Rochester, New York at The Strong National Museum of Play. Originally created by Rovio Entertainment Ltd., the uber ...

It started simple enough: Two years ago, on holiday in Curaçao, I discovered a palm-sized yellow bird trapped inside the restaurant where I was dining. I gently wrapped my hands around it—felt its ...

*Two-time NBA champion Vernon Maxwell — better known as “Mad Max” — is once again making headlines. In a recent episode of the “All the Smoke” podcast hosted by Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, ...

From Mexico to New Zealand, Europe to the remote Galápagos islands, researchers have observed an odd behavior of numerous bird species that we are only now potentially beginning to understand: They ...

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As ancient, hollowed trees disappear in England, one researcher and his team are engineering prosthetic nests to provide an alternative home for endangered birds. Filipe Salbany, conservation lead at ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships among birds: the illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny ...

Vernon Maxwell earned the nickname "Mad Max" for numerous reasons. Aside from the controversies he got involved in, he was also a ferocious competitor who never backed down from anybody. Whether it ...

Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the bird’s survival. A southern cassowary stands on a beach at Etty Bay in ...

“The first time I met a bird close-up, it was dead,” Adam Nicolson informs the reader at the start of “Bird School: A Beginner in the Wood” (FSG, 448 pages, $32), wryly capturing a paradox at the ...