The dodo is usually depicted as a slow, dim-witted, goofy-looking bird, a total evolutionary loser. But what if, for all these centuries, the dodo bird has just been misunderstood?

A recently discovered bird species from Brazil, the slaty-masked tinamou, could face the same fate as the infamous dodo, ...

This bird is totally crazy-looking, and it is an opera singer,” says a biologist from Colombia and an expert on Neotropical ...

The slaty-masked tinamou, found in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry.

This winter is the 50th anniversary of the bird that put Newburyport on the birding map. If you visit the Mass Audubon Joppa Flats Education Center in Newburyport, there is a storyboard about that ...

The Denison Dance Co. will present "Rare Birds" at 7 p.m. Nov. 15 and 2 p.m. Nov. 16. The performances will take place in the Sharon Martin Hall of the Michael D. Eisner Center for the Performing Arts ...

Local birder Clarence Yeung, who lives fewer than 10 minutes from the park, rushed out with his camera after the alert on eBird's rare bird alert system. For Yeung, it was a "lifer"—a term birders use ...

Under the YouTube account Bird Parenting (@BirdParenting), the so-called "Nestflix footage" showcases the nest through the early stages of maternal care, including the hatching and feeding processes.

It was early Thursday, Sept. 25, at Cape Point on Hatteras Island. As Bob Lewis focused his long lens on a Black Tern, he noticed in the frame an unusual bird, what he initially thought was a ...