The shape, size, color and form of a bird’s beak can offer many clues about where they live, feed, their diet and how they ...

Few people are familiar with this giant bird from Africa. It owes its name to its particularly striking beak, which is ...

Museum scientist Gary Graves has spent decades investigating why red-billed and black-billed streamertail hummingbirds remain ...

Sixty-six million years ago, on a now nonexistent island in what is today Romania, an animal lived that was unlike any other.

Hummingbirds, unique to the Americas, boast diverse adaptations. The sword-billed hummingbird's beak exceeds its body length, ...

A persistent claim circulated online that woodpeckers avoid concussions from pecking because their long tongues wrap around their skulls, protecting their brains. It's true that s ...

Although a few have been seen in Mississippi in recent years, encountering a white hummingbird is highly unusual.

This article appears in the October 2025 issue, with the headline “From Blazers to Belligerence.” At the events surrounding ...

Just like humans, animals can sometimes be born with or develop disabilities, but that doesn’t stop them from living full and joyful lives. On TikTok, one special duck is showing the world exactly ...

I thought snipes were a myth!’ ” No wonder. The true snipe is remarkably good at not being seen, relying on its mud-colored plumage with straw-colored streaks for camouflage among the wetland ...

Suzuki continues to dominate the value game with bikes that ride like giants but cost like underdogs, here are ten that lead ...

Across the UK, the curlew’s call is fading – but in the Lyth Valley, a band of volunteers and farmers are working to make sure it isn’t lost forever ...