According to BirdCast, 262 million birds are predicted to hit the skies tonight alone. The bird tracking and forecasting tool ...

Scientists are learning new information about the swift and tiny ruby-throated hummingbird through a new tagging program.

As the leaves in Northeastern Pennsylvania begin to change color, many animals are preparing for colder weather to come.For ...

When summer ends, hummingbirds migrate and need both food and shelter to survive their journey. Here's how to make your ...

Sporting gray feathers, a long neck, and a distinctive patch of red on their forehead, sandhill cranes — one of the oldest living bird species — are reportedly ...

Hummingbirds are migratory by nature, traveling thousands of miles each year between their breeding grounds in North America ...

Animal rescuers said they braved rough seas and powerful winds to free a humpback whale entangled in fishing gear off the coast of Australia during what they described as one of the season’s more ...

Rescuers with the Sea World Foundation say they recently freed a humpback whale entangled in fishing line off the New South ...

Animals that migrate don’t need to see the first frost or the first few inches of snow to get the message to move farther to ...

While most insects manage to overwinter in a pupae or larval stage, Monarch butterflies seen in Ohio in the fall migrate more than 2,000 miles to the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico. These southbound ...

A monarch flies around flowers along the Hudson River in downtown Manhattan.

Welcome to the first column of Birdbrained Science! In this biweekly column, I’ll be talking about a variety of scientific topics — bird-related, brain-related and otherwise.