Can you save that feather you found on the trail and bring it home? In most cases, no — and there could be legal consequences ...

"The tough bits are then regurgitated within a ball of feathers, much the way owls spit up pellets of bones from their prey.

Scientists found that red-tailed hawks adjust their wings and tails during molt to keep flying and landing safely despite ...

Birds tweet, squawk, chirp, hoot, cluck, and screech to communicate with each other. Some birds have found another way to talk, though: they make sounds by fluttering their feathers or smacking their ...

Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid-induced mass extinction 66 million years ago. But not all the birds alive at the time made it. Why the ancestors of modern birds lived ...

June 3 (UPI) --Feathers arrived at least 100 million years before birds, according to a new survey. Using new data in the fields of palaeontology and molecular developmental biology, scientists were ...

Birds are perhaps the most colourful group of animals, bringing a splash of colour to the natural world around us every day. Indeed, exclusively black and white birds – such as magpies – are in the ...