The study of wild birds has had a disproportionate impact on the birth and evolution of several branches of science. Thus argue Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny and Bob Montgomerie in Ten Thousand Birds. In ...

Lined with endless rows of white cabinets, Harvard’s Ornithology Collection is imposing — even mausoleum-like — upon first glance; it’s only after opening the drawers that the true colors of the ...

I confess to knowing how many species of bird I have seen (3,763) and that just over 200 people report having seen more. The eccentricity of ornithologists may be exceptional, but an interest in birds ...

We all know that a single swallow doesn't make a summer, but how many of us truly appreciate that each of these blue swooping birds is still a minor miracle? Take the issue of migration. Over the ...

The American Ornithological Society will remove people’s names from birds. Many of those birds are now named after prominent Philadelphia scientists. In ''American Ornithology,'' Alexander Wilson ...

I’ve become The Bird Guy to my friends and family. When they see a bird they don’t recognize, I’m asked to identify it with nothing more than a blurry photo. When the algorithms feed them bird-related ...

Learn about the study of birds known as ornithology. Explore the history of avian science, its importance in ecology, and the work of famous ornithologists. The scientific study of birds is called ...

How do birds evolve over generations? How do different bird populations diverge into new species? Ornithologists have been asking these questions since the days of Darwin, but rapid advances in ...

This two volume scrapbook contains 131 leaves of mounted drawings, pattern plates for the colorist, and uncolored proof impressions compiled by the Scottish naturalist William Jardine for his five ...

The American Ornithological Society (AOS) journals, Ornithology and Ornithological Applications, are pleased to announce two new article types: Insights and Monographs. Insights are invited, short ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology launched the 2023 Great Backyard Bird Count in a virtual event on Wednesday afternoon. Hosted on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology YouTube channel, the webinar was attended ...