Fewer than 2,500 Western snowy plovers remain along the entire West Coast of the United States, and Alameda is lucky enough to host several of the threatened birds. Sharol Nelson-Embry introduces the ...

Flightless species of birds (such as ostriches, which are the largest living birds) tend to outsize any of the largest birds ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

A Fredericktown family reported that the locally beloved bird – a leucistic red-tailed hawk – was on their property and unable to fly, according to a Feb. 11 Facebook post from the Missouri Department ...