Here are some of the smartest birds in the world, and what makes them so intelligent. Members of the Corvidae family include ...

Qi was able to show that another chemical messenger called acetylcholine can trigger dopamine release in the bird’s brain ...

To our eyes, they often are a blur. But high-speed cameras show us what makes these birds perfect flying machines. A captive Anna’s hummingbird feeds while hovering before an optical illusion in ...

I’m uneasy about calling Archaeopteryx a bird. But it’s getting close!” Archaeopteryx is about 150 million years old, which makes it arguably one of the oldest truly bird-like dinosaurs discovered so ...

Peak bird migration is about to start in Colorado and around the country. Here are tools for tracking and identifying the ...

Bou, now 38, spent the past five years trying to capture the elusive contours drawn by birds in motion, or, as he says, “to make visible the invisible.” First he had to shed the role of mere ...