Val Cunningham regularly answers reader questions about birds and birding. Submit your own questions below. A small, dark bird lurked at the edges of ponds, lakes and streams all summer long, intent ...

While many plants and animals are lost to us forever, this little bird has just been very good at hiding. Here's how ...

The egg, which belonged to a giant flightless bird that vanished centuries ago, was purchased by a company working with Peter ...

Researchers working in a West African rainforest captured photos of a vulnerable bird species for the first time since 2013 ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 foot-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers led by the Martin ...

When ecologist Jean Semeki installed camera traps along a forest trail in the Luki Biosphere Reserve in the west of the ...

When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived in my region were nowhere to be found. Some, like the passenger pigeon, ...