While sitting on my back porch one day during late afternoon, my leisurely pursuit was interrupted as a large and seemingly nervous flock of red-winged blackbirds happened to fly by my location. The ...

A shape-shifting flock of thousands of starlings, called a murmuration, is amazing to see. As many as 750,000 birds join together in flight. The birds spread out and come together. The flock splits ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The late Oxford University biologist William D. Hamilton discussed the advantages of ...

This Christmas Bird Count, we salute the fabulous, underappreciated, common species. Here's to you, house sparrow.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Joan Strassmann, Washington University in St. Louis (THE CONVERSATION) As I walked ...

As I walked along Bolivar Flats, just across from Galveston Island in Texas, I watched flocks of sanderlings forage along the ...