Yellow Youngsters: Yellow Bittern, Best Portrait category. As part of its fifth annual edition, the Bird Photographer of the Year (BPOTY) 2020 competition organized by the British natural history ...

Black-capped chickadees have an incredible ability to remember where they've cached food in their environments. They are also small, fast, and able to fly. So how exactly can a neuroscientist ...

Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural environment, humans, and wildlife. He holds degrees in journalism and environmental anthropology. An albatross is a large, ...

The Rufa red knot (a shorebird named "Moonbird," or "B95," photographed in a crowd of birds at Fortescue, NJ. Credit: Christophe Buidin.) "Moonbird," they call him. Or sometimes, just "B95" -- the ...

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A new species of forest thrush has been discovered in a remote region of northeastern India, making it only the fourth new bird discovered in the country since independence in 1947. The bird, called ...