As North America moves into spring, hummingbirds are migrating north. Hummingbird Central uses crowdsourced sightings to show ...

Oviraptorosaurs are weird dinosaurs that look a bit like flightless birds. But these ancient animals aren't just ...

A Powell Butte resident “found the eagle lethargic and unable to fly” in the field March 16, wildlife rescue nonprofit Think ...

Plus, readers ask about goldfinches nesting and eating, starlings making holes in lawns and swans appearing in local waters.

Tufted puffins are set to make their highly anticipated return to the Oregon coast later this month.The sea birds spend most ...

Cranial kinesis allows modern birds to eat a wider variety of foods and use their beaks as multifunctional tools.

Under these drastically changing conditions, the struggle to survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard seeds. Smaller finches with less-powerful beaks perished.

Yet birds differ from their reptile ancestors in many important ways. A turning point in their evolution was the development of larger brains, which in turn led to changes in the size and shape of ...

Photo by Mark Olsen[/caption] The most common shape for typical seed-eating birds is a short, thick, and conical beak. Think of the classic "triangle" shape. This strong, sturdy beak acts like a ...

D modeling reveals that as bird brains grew larger, it led to changes in jaw muscles and joint mechanics—enabling the ...

President Higgins leads tributes after death of Matt Murphy, founder of Sherkin Island Marine Station ...

Photographer Ryan Wilkes captured a hummingbird from a perspective that’s typically unseen. This slow-motion close-up of a hummingbird’s tongue displays its uniqueness and versatility. In the same way ...