The Wright Brothers studied bird flight before they designed the first airplane. Now modern aircraft fly higher and faster ...

Swallow-tailed kites flash overhead in Florida during the spring months as they hunt just above the tree canopies.

A common species of western mountains, where the male’s diagnostic, cricketlike wing trill is a characteristic sound. Like many “western” hummingbirds, the broad-tailed is increasingly found ...

It’s a large perching bird, about 20 inches long, and a member of the Crinifer genus. Its species can be told by the long tail, which is black or gray and has a white band across the middle of ...

The Paradise Tanager is a stunning bird with beautiful colours that is a true gem in the avian world. It comes from the rainforests of South America and showcases the beauty of nature. This bird has a ...

The smallest bird in the grouse family ... until there's no more room to rise. And since the white-tailed ptarmigan is an “indicator species” for high-elevation ecosystems — the canary in the alpine — ...