Senior staff writer Faith Richardson argues that pigeons are misunderstood and gives historical insight into the human story ...

For jackdaws—black and gray relatives of crows—family comes first, according to a recent study published last month in Nature Communications. Scientists put these cognitively complex birds to the test ...

Wisdom, the 72-year-old albatross residing on an island northwest of Hawai'i, is performing mating dances for potential partners Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

As you begin to see nests full of baby chicks and fledgling birds hopping around in your backyard, you may wonder: how do birds mate? The answer is actually different from what we’ve come to expect as ...

Pretty much everybody in New Jersey knows the blue jay. Its Latin name is Cyanocitta cristata, said to mean “noisy blue bird with a crest.” That describes it pretty well, except that the breast and ...

Loyalty isn’t just a human trait. In the wild and at home, certain animals form unshakable bonds with their partners, families, and even humans. Some stay devoted to one mate for life, others never ...

One of Colorado’s seasonal visitors is one of the oldest bird species in existence. Fossil records show Sandhill Cranes have been around for ten million years. The big gray birds with crimson caps ...

Walnut the white-naped crane isn’t like all the other girls. She and Chris Crowe, her beloved zookeeper with the avian-inspired name (we really can’t make this up!) have been domestic partners for 14 ...

MIDWAY ATOLL (WKRC) - The oldest known bird in the world, an albatross named Wisdom, laid an egg at the age of 74. Wisdom was first tagged by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in 1956 when ...

My friend and I had just stepped out of May’s Drive-In late one October morning when she pointed to a large black bird on the ...