An unusual bird known to find temporary comfort in the gardens and trees of Houston-area neighborhoods is announcing itself with a distinctive call. The black-bellied whistling duck is typically about ...

The lovable Star Wars droid is helping to shed light on why some bird species are better at mimicking sounds than others ...

The nightjar, a nocturnal bird species, is a master of disguise. Their grey-brown coloring and streaked feathers help them to camouflage with their surroundings, making them difficult to spy. Even so, ...

This would be an outstanding clue in a future Jeopardy episode under the category of Birds: they look like hawks and act like vultures, but they are actually falcons. Answer: What is the crested ...

Have you heard sounds like the rustling of leaves or cracking of branches outside your windows lately? It’s probably not a mythical Fresno Nightcrawler, but wild animals can certainly be making noise ...

Of all the species of gallinaceous birds that occur in Minnesota, only sharp-tailed grouse, also called "sharptails," and ...

Great horned owls have always symbolized wisdom, knowledge, and the afterlife. In the wild, they are fierce predators and even fiercer protectors of their young, and this maternal owl in the below ...

Have you ever wondered how a bird sings? Or made some of their less melodic vocalizations, like squawks, trills, or chirps? It all happens in the syrinx, a vocal organ unique to birds. Reptiles, ...

New Zealand's rarest birds have seemingly come back from the dead. For decades, they were thought to be extinct until tiny populations were rediscovered, the holdouts that survived against the odds.