The title of the world's most beautiful bird is often given to the Resplendent Quetzal, native to Central America. Learn why ...

A hummingbird’s heart beats over 1,200 times per minute, while the great egret hunts with precision unmatched in shallow ...

A new global study finds that the visual beauty of birds—their colors and shapes—predicts which wild species are traded by ...

They are small songbirds in the family Parulidae, active hunters of insects that are frequently adorned with splashes of bright color, most often yellow. Like other insect-eating birds, they have thin ...

Beads of Diamonds. Bronze Award Winner, Attention to Detail category: a common loon bird diving to feed leeches and tiny fish to its chicks. Cariboo, British Columbia A pure white rock ptarmigan ...

It's been a cold winter in Washington, D.C., but over at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum, there's a flutter of exotic real and imaginary birds, created by 12 contemporary artists, in an exhibit ...

Now in its fourth year, Bird Photographer of the Year is a global photography competition that celebrates avian beauty and diversity. With thousands of images entered for competition from more than 60 ...

“Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it. How Genes Have Harnessed Physics ...

Nothing is more relaxing than watching birds outside your window. What if the feeder is as amazing as the birds? These bird feeders are beautiful enough to qualify as art. Backyard birds bring an ...

American. Thanksgiving is, among other things, a celebration of the incredible bounty of foodstuffs with which the two great ...