A hummingbird’s heart beats over 1,200 times per minute, while the great egret hunts with precision unmatched in shallow ...

The title of the world's most beautiful bird is often given to the Resplendent Quetzal, native to Central America. Learn why ...

Wild birds are proving both a boon and a bane for the farming communities of the Stillaguamish and Skagit river valleys. The riches of these low-lying zones alongside Puget Sound attract wildlife and ...

A new global study finds that the visual beauty of birds—their colors and shapes—predicts which wild species are traded by ...

It's been a cold winter in Washington, D.C., but over at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum, there's a flutter of exotic real and imaginary birds, created by 12 contemporary artists, in an exhibit ...