Male ruffed grouse create a low drumbeat in spring to attract mates and challenge rivals. The sound can carry a quarter mile.

The team is "here to stay," no matter what, lead researcher Keith Bowers said, amid federal funding changes for scientific research.

The deserts of southern Arizona, however, are dramatically different from the Northwoods. The fact that a dog that has perfected its craft on forest birds could, in fact, do the same on other ...

New research says long-billed curlews listen to alarm barks from prairie dog colonies to protect themselves from predators.

Everyone knows that if you want to enjoy the full experience of the dawn chorus in the forests of Central Europe, or carry ...

Researchers at the Bowers Lab in Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park are conducting a long-term study of bird species. The lab is tracking an "evolutionary arms race" between prothonotary warblers and ...

Bird dog training season with wild birds on public lands begins Aug. 1 for residents and Aug. 15 for nonresidents and ends March 31, 2024. The license is a new requirement that that came from the ...

When the song pauses in a game of musical chairs, everyone jostles for one of the remaining seats. Bird migration today is much the same. When it’s time for a break in their biannual travels, ...

Fontenelle Forest said, the birds they have in their care all needed some sort of rehabilitation. The goal is to release them back into the wild, but for some, that's not an option.

The 'i'iwi is one of Hawaii's honeycreepers, forest birds that are found nowhere else. There were once more than 50 species. Now, only 17 remain.