To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, ...

What flowers or plants can I plant to attract hummingbirds?  —Bruce Palmer, Algonquin Seeing a hummingbird is always a ...

But some birds are total badasses—they swoop down, talons ready, and take on one of nature’s most feared creatures: snakes.

Discoveries about evolution have long been intertwined with bird beaks. The huge variety of beak shapes among finches in the Galapagos Islands became emblematic of Charles Darwin’s theory of ...

Over 500 bird species could vanish in 100 years. Protecting habitats isn't enough. Targeted recovery efforts are crucial.

The natural marvels, which do everything from enabling acrobatic flight to insulating against Antarctic cold, continue to ...

With “Woodpecker Trinity,” the artist reimagines a famous Audubon watercolor to pay tribute to the long-debated woodpecker, ...

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes ...

Community science projects exist across the country and throughout the world on a spectrum that includes major journeys, local ramblings and desktop investigations. Websites, such as SciStarter.org, ...

She extols several plants currently blooming in her garden whose flowers are in the fiery color spectrum that stretches from yellow to orange to red. The plant she is most enthusiastic about is a ...

Unless regularly cleaned, those hummingbird feeders that many people have in their backyard could actually be harming, or ...