The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

A bird long thought to be a single rare species in Japan has turned out to be two. Scientists discovered that the elusive Ijima’s Leaf Warbler and a newly identified Tokara Leaf Warbler look almost ...

Merlin Bird ID will soon feed AI-powered bird identifications into Cornell's eBird platform, helping researchers monitor bird populations using millions of real-world observations.

Researchers at Cornell Lab of Ornithology, University of Massachusetts and University of Illinois have developed breakthrough methods to track the migration of individual bird species by combining ...

Drones and artificial intelligence could provide valuable information to guide efforts to slow the alarming extinction rate ...

A bio-inspired robotic bird capable of mimicking the key movements of kestrels is helping researchers unravel the mysteries ...

Manakins can move so quickly that they often appear only as blurs of blue or red as they flit along the rainforest floors of ...

H5N1 bird flu has reached Australia, the last continent it had spared. It came from Antarctica via seabirds, and the next ...

Many of our favorite songbirds use birdhouses for nesting and staying warm in winter. Birdhouses provide a suitable place for birds to raise young when the habitat doesn't—which is often the case in ...

Researchers uncovered why H5N1 bird flu attacks cows’ udders instead of their lungs: the virus’s preferred receptors are concentrated in mammary tissue. The breakthrough could help scientists predict ...

A research group in China has developed a method for coloring PV modules using quasi-ordered photonic pigments instead of conventional absorbing dyes. Unlike traditional dyes, which create color by ...