ornithology
Are Crows Assholes? An Investigation.
There are several videos showing crows mobbing other birds, stealing food, even terrorising entire neighbourhoods. Is the bird smarter than we think or just a Grade-A asshole?
The Birder Who Wants Black Youth to See Themselves in STEM
Corina Newsome, a graduate student in biology at Georgia Southern University, helped organize #BlackBirdersWeek and is only getting started with her advocacy.
We Just Discovered This Bird and It's Already Almost Extinct
The blue-throated hillstar is a striking hummingbird. It’s also critically endangered.
A Renegade Birdwatcher Makes a "Field Guide to Dumb Birds"
This birdwatcher hates birds. So he decided to catalogue every single stupid one he sees.
There Are Twice as Many Species of Birds as We Thought, Study Finds
A recent study flies in the face of currently accepted species classifications.
Scientists Realized a Species of Bird Is Really Thirteen Different Species
The distinction helped researchers recognize that some of the species are threatened.
Illustrator Takes on 375 Million Years of Avian Evolution
Artist Jane Kim unveils her 243-bird mural at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
What to Do When You Find a Baby Bird on the Ground
Step one: don't take it home with you. Seriously. Stahp.