The lights in the auditorium darken. The cacophony of voices subsides. The enormous screen comes to life, displaying a satellite image of Australia and the scattering of islands directly to the north.

Western tanagers are migratory birds that are present in Northern California in the spring and again in late summer. A new study shows that observations by 'citizen scientists' using apps such as ...

Sharing our fun sightings with our bird-loving friends is always a delight, but as the end of the year approaches there is ...

Created at a time when bird populations were declining drastically, experts say the once-yearly count is crucial, as the ...

This comic, illustrated by Fio Geiran, is inspired by an interview from TED Radio Hour's episode The Birds and the Bees. From nest-hopping to manipulating eggs, the bird world is full of family drama.

Getting inventive can also help entice new birders, Jimenez says. Rather than barrage newbies with names and numbers, set ...

This July 2023 photo provided by Ashley Dayer shows Dayer in the Adirondacks, N.Y. (Ashley Dayer). Adirondacks in 2023 (Uncredited) Ashley Dayer's dream of winning a National Science Foundation grant ...

The timer started at 8:11 a.m last Saturday morning. Almost immediately, Laura Waterbury, an environmental educator with the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy and the leader of the morning’s ...

Scientists just recently decided to study female birds. What they found astounded them. Some female birds, like the two red-legged honeycreepers (Cyanerpes cyaneus) pictured above in Costa Rica, have ...

Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird encourage people to observe and document nature, but how accurate is the ecological data that they collect? In a new study published in Citizen Science: Theory ...