A purported sighting of a rat wouldn't get much attention in many places around the world, but this Alaskan island is a ...

A thought-provoking image of thousands of birds killed by colliding with the windows of high-rise buildings took the 2024 ...

Perhaps one of the most common birds heard and spotted across North America, Mourning Doves are often sighted near humans.

perhaps millions of birds in the air at a given time.” He said officials were right to take the alleged sighting of a rat on St. Paul so seriously. He credited the largely Alaska Native communities in ...

On an island of windswept tundra in the Bering Sea, hundreds of miles from mainland Alaska, a resident sitting outside their ...

Bird names, both common and scientific, try to help clarify which bird is which. A black-capped chickadee by any other name ...

When science was young it was possible for a species of goose, whose nesting place had never been found, to be regarded as a creature of marine origin, hatched from a barnacle and thus, not ...

Birds banded with geolocaters are getting new and useful data, especially those that travel between North America and South ...

In Arizona's Sky Islands, dry summers may be pushing some bird species away from traditional migratory routes.

Birds approach the challenges of migration in surprising ways. Learn how some birds migrate by walking, swimming or taking the scenic route.

That is because rats that stow away on vessels can quickly populate and overrun remote islands, devastating bird populations by eating eggs, chicks or even adults and upending once-vibrant ecosystems.

Over the years I’ve travelled afar — saving Alaska and Canada for last. I’m guessing I figured I would walk and hike the big ...