In 1882, the French Naturalist Camille Viguier was among the first to propose the existence of a magnetic sense. His ...

Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears.

Birds understand many sounds around them, from mates to alarms, and this hidden skill may hint at how human language first ...

For decades, scientists have known that only a few groups of birds—songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds—can learn to produce ...

A cheery reminder of Minneapolis' most iconic public art: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen 's Spoonbridge and Cherry, ...

Larger 'bully birds' can scare off smaller species like robins and blue tits from your garden, but there are a few simple ...

There's something special about buying local for the holidays. These holiday craft fairs in the area are a great way to check off your list, enjoy the lights and music, and chat with the people who ...

On October 20, 2025, in Xinjiang, China, @Miāolegèmīa shared a video capturing a clever cat figuring out how to access its toy bird. In the video, the cat examines a drawer above it, discovers a way ...

Next Sunday, November 9, Heather Wolf, author of Birding at the Bridge and Find More Birds, will lead a special bird walk in Brooklyn Bridge Park, in partnership with Channel 13 and PBS Nature, which ...

For the past 29 years, I’ve published my first bird column as close to the anniversary date of its initial publication as possible.

A group of students at the University have come together to form a bird strike committee, doing rounds of campus buildings to look for birds killed in window collisions. The committee maps hotspots ...

Outdoors A nightly spectacle plays out in the marsh with hundreds of bugling birds An evening with sandhill cranes at a Wisconsin refuge is a sensory experience and a reminder of the waterfowl’s story ...