In the age old battle between bird and cat, felines are ringing up quite a lead. A study published by Nature Communications in January credited domestic cats — which includes both pets and strays — ...

Pearson International Airport has a 2.5 bird strike rate per 10,000 air plane movements a year. The airport’s manager of environmental initiatives says that's an impressive rate. “We are always ...

Seasonal flooding provides nutrients that are essential to highly productive oyster, shrimp, blue crab, and fish nurseries in the Apalachicola River estuary. State of Florida concerns over water flow ...

At the start of a 15th-century fable by the poet Robert Henryson, a prudent sparrow gives a flock of jejune fellow birds a stern warning. Unless they are more cautious of the farmer whose land they ...

Birds in backyards Backyard feeding of wild birds can decrease native species while boosting introduced species, new research suggests. The findings, from the longest-running study of its kind, are ...

Fritz Hertel and Kenneth E. Campbell, Jr. The antitrochanter is a uniquely avian osteological feature of the pelvis that is located lateral to the postero-dorsal rim of the acetabulum. This feature ...