NEW YORK (AP) - To humans, the twin blue beams shining upward from lower Manhattan each Sept. 11 evoke solemn memories of the 2001 terrorist attacks. But to migrating birds, they're a potentially ...

A new study has examined how light pollution lures birds into urban areas during fall migration, a trend that poses risk for the fowl that often fly into buildings and has increased with the addition ...

A pair of falcons and their young put on an aerial display for dozens of urban bird watchers in downtown Wilmington, Delaware. Bill Stewart of the Delaware Ornithological Society shows a young bird ...

On their fall migration south in the Northern Hemisphere, scores of birds are being lured by artificial light pollution into urban areas that may be an ecological trap, according to the University of ...

Every autumn, billions of birds leave their breeding areas when the temperature drops and food gets scarce to spend the winter in more favorable climes, returning the following spring when warm ...

A 56 million-year-old fossil bone helps explain how this (mostly) flightless family of birds spread to so many different ...