If you want to find an outdoor screen-free family activity, consider birdwatching for kids. It's an easy, low-cost way to spark curiosity about the natural world, and it's something you can do whether ...

HANGZHOU -- An international team has revolutionized the system of bird classification and rewritten our understanding of the evolutionary history of birds. Despite tremendous efforts in the past ...

Classifying birds by plumage and other anatomical features served scientists well over the centuries, but genetic analyses have opened up a world of detail about avian family ties. An international ...

As kids are heading indoors and settling in for the cold weather, many young birds are preparing for the journey of a lifetime. Hatched in the spring, these fliers—and their parents—are getting ready ...

Expanding on previously published research into folk classification of birds in the eastern part of the Indonesian island of Sumba, this article reports new information on bird categories and ...