A dozen writers from The Kansas City Star and The Philadelphia Inquirer go head-to-head in a Super Bowl showdown of words and ...

Flightless species of birds (such as ostriches, which are the largest living birds) tend to outsize any of the largest birds ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

People have always been interested in where wild animals go, especially when they were a primary food source. Now one of the questions is: why are North American grassland bird populations shrinking?

A little over a year ago, Marcela Uhart was walking on the beach in Punta Delgada, Argentina. It was peak breeding session on this peninsula known for its rich marine wildlife. Usually, the salty ...

"We've gone from this concept of dead birds don't fly to this new virus that seems to be a bit more like dead bird flying," explains Erik Karlsson, head of the Virology Unit at the Institut Pasteur du ...

In the aftermath of two back-to-back fatal airplane crashes last week, Americans are understandably left wondering if flying remains the safest way to travel. Travelers heading to the airport can ...

But as for me, I think I’ll stick to my wicked old birds and their unique, charismatic blend of virtue and vice. This column first appeared in the December Issue 953 of the FLYING print edition.