The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is in the middle of its annual Canada goose banding effort across the state.

Some birds sport unique-looking crowns, crests, or mohawks. Continue reading to learn more about these birds.  9. Golden Pheasant  Also known as the Chinese pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus), ...

Ducks are short-necked members of the Anatidae family. They’re smaller than geese and swans, but distinct from other aquatic birds like loons, grebes, and coots. They live all over the world, in both ...

Jønsson thinks it’s highly likely. "New Guinea’s poisonous birds belong to the Corvides super-family of birds, which comprise roughly 700 species worldwide,” he says.

We know that birds sing. They also whistle, chirp, coo, caw, call, hoot, shriek, clack, warble. Some sound quite out of tune, loud and noisy, while others just frightening. Some birds are great ...

While birds probably began nesting in the Arctic even earlier than 73 million years ago, the fossils are the oldest traces of this behaviour found to date. They push back the record of this in ...

James Gentz has seen birds aplenty on his East Texas rice-and-crawfish farm: snow geese and pintails, spoonbills and teal. The whooping crane couple, though, he found “magnificent.” These ...

Dozens of birds have met their sudden and violent demise in a California neighborhood in recent months, dropping out of the sky mid-flight and falling dead on city streets and in backyards.

Helping birds and floating solar energy coexist Scientists outline key considerations for floatovoltaics and waterbirds Date: May 12, 2025 Source: University of California - Davis Summary: How ...

The first few days in May had an average of about 4.5 million birds migrating over Indiana at night, and experts predict an average of about 6 million birds passing each night through the end of ...

By February, the earliest birds return to higher latitudes to nest and reproduce. The movements of anatidae – that is, ducks, geese, and swans – are studied particularly closely in France.