Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many other great questions in her book, The Bird Watching Answer Book.

Birds are often associated with flight, but not all of them take to the skies. Around 60 species — fewer than 1% of all bird ...

For centuries, researchers have pondered how starlings travel in those gorgeous shape-shifting clouds. The answers continue ...

“On a big night in the spring, you're talking 450 to 500 million birds flying under cover of darkness.” In the contiguous ...

Birds are on the move as their annual spring migration begins. Radar tracking allows you to follow along to see what birds are flying overhead as the birds move to their summer feeding grounds. "The ...