The adult bald eagle dropped to eye height and cruised across the rocky point, made a remarkable U-turn and immediately plunged its legs into the water, rising quickly with a small fish. No hesitation ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WLS) -- A duck in Wisconsin has a new lease on a life thanks to a teacher's compassion and 3D printing technology. Phillip the duck has a new set of webbed feet 3D printed by a middle ...

Five fossil specimens of a near-modern bird found in the Gansu Province of northwestern China show that early birds likely evolved in an aquatic environment. The findings suggest that Gansus yumenesis ...

When picturing a flock of flamingos, we often imagine long pink legs planted in a shallow lake and heads submerged as they filter feed. Though it looks peaceful, there’s a lot going on beneath the ...

What makes a duck a duck? If this question has kept you awake at night, you may want to consider a career in ornithology - the scientific study of birds. Ornithologists spend a lot of time figuring ...

Some birds are unmistakable. When Jennie Baker of Friendsville told me about seeing about five dozen American white pelicans on Ft. Loudoun Lake in Blount County I wasn't surprised, except by the high ...

Newly found fossils from China suggest that the ancestors of present-day birds may have been waterfowl. Be they pelicans or penguins, bowerbirds or budgies, all of today's roughly 10,000 species of ...