Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many ...

In the vast urban sprawl of Arizona, the habitat of the tiny western burrowing owl is being destroyed—prompting ...

Tressa Speight noticed a lot of Facebook chatter Wednesday evening about a bald eagle that seemed to have a broken wing and was unable to fly near Portage Lakes State Park.

The wings of some species flap up to a hundred ... Marc Badger of UC Berkeley elicits such acrobatics in the lab by having birds fly through small apertures, a situation the photographer re ...

A burrowing owl who was injured and nursed back to health at the Ojai Raptor Center (ORC) has a new home at a Goleta nature ...

The final hunt of the season went about as well as most of the others. I followed the dog with optimism, punching through ...

A big part of my lack of understanding was that I rarely saw them in the city, and those few times that I did, they were ...

Flying fish The flying fish propels itself out of water and glides using its wing-like fins to escape predators. Flying frog The flying frog glides between trees using webbed feet and skin flaps, ...

Painted lady butterflies are world travelers. The ones we encounter in Europe fly from Africa to Sweden, ultimately returning to areas north and south of the Sahara. But what determines whether some ...

it beats its wings only a very few times, to enable it to proceed in its usual way of sailing. Like the Black Vultures, they rise high in the air, and perform large circles, in company with those ...

Yes, it’s safe to buy and eat chicken wings for the Super Bowl. Both the USDA and FDA are responsible for protecting public ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...