Birds tend to be more colorful in the tropics, and scientists wanted to find out how they got there: if colorful feathers evolved in the tropics, or if tropical birds have brightly-colored ancestors ...

It’s easy to lump all sparrow bird types together: “Yep, looks like a sparrow to me.” You can find at least 33 species of native sparrows across the country. And while their plumage won’t sweep you ...

One bright spot is green sea turtles, which have recovered substantially, the IUCN said as it released its latest Red List of ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - For some nature lovers, an early morning walk with temperatures near freezing is the perfect time for spotting birds. You can hear all kinds of bird sounds coming from the ...

MOLINE -- Brad Baldwin doesn't have to listen very hard each morning or night to hear birds chirping. He just walks to his newly-built sunroom to hear his 30 small birds chatting away. His sunroom -- ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Samuel Henderson, a 10 year-old who can imitate a number of bird calls with surprising accuracy. In some of the, well, less stressful corners of social media, you can ...