The dogged search for a bird that many people figured had gone extinct included torrential rains, washed-out bridges, swine ...

A tropical bird that lost its way has found a safe haven in Bermuda after a journey of thousands of miles. The sighting of a ...

Across Florida’s wetlands, in Native American folklore, and probably your yard, the white ibis has earned the nickname ...

Radar data from Colombia reveals how tropical winds shape bird migration and pose new challenges for conservation.

The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at ...

Every year, billions of birds undertake intrepid journeys between temperate regions in North America and their tropical ...

After decades of political unrest, former poachers and community members rallied to protect the Bengal florican.

Stumbling across a bird emphatically calling and appearing to hold a broken wing is a good sign of a nearby nest—and a clue that you may be too close. Should you encounter a displaying bird, back up ...

Tropical Storm Chantal made landfall just before sunrise Sunday, July 6, near Litchfield Beach, South Carolina, bringing strong winds, torrential rain, and storm surge to parts of the state’s ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator bordered by the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in ...

Tropical islands’ geologic pasts make them an important natural system to study species responses to changing habitat at both ecological and evolutionary timescales. Birds are an ideal clade for this ...