An intrepid penguin hailing from New Zealand’s Snares Island has popped up in the Chilean city of Punta Arenas, more than 7500km away; The Snares penguin’s visit was described ...

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

Nonstop flights direct from Iowa to Venezuela are rare, unless you happen to be a well-fed pectoral sandpiper. If it finds ...

New Zealand has so far avoided the strain of avian influenza causing mass mortalities of wild birds and mammals around the world. But geographic isolation was not enough protection for one ...

The things that freak people out about Muscovy ducks are the caruncles, sometimes called wattles – the prominent, bright red, ...

The green Argentine parrot, also colloquially known as a ‘Chatterbox’, is an invasive species everyone has become familiar ...

When America's Founding Fathers affixed a bald eagle to the great seal of the United States in 1782, they likely had no idea they were highlighting what would become one of the greatest wildlife ...

One of the most majestic birds in the animal kingdom, the scarlet macaw is drenched in hues of red, yellow, and Tuscan blue.

“For nearly 250 years, we called the bald eagle the national bird when it wasn’t,” said Jack Davis, co-chair of the National Bird Initiative for the National Eagle Center, in a news release. “But now ...

Along the long road from American icon to endangered species and back again, the bald eagle — the national bird of the United ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

From birds travelling non-stop for 11 days, to the incredible feats of caribou, discover some of the longest migrations animals ...