To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator ...

These birds look pretty funky. They stand between 48 to 60 centimeters tall (18.9 to 23.6 inches) with a 70 to 80 centimeter wingspan (27.6 to 31.4 inches) and have an enormous mouth and large ...

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Coastal Bird Program studies the red knot, a federally-listed threatened shorebird about the size of an American robin, to find out why they’re ...

On average, the birds flew 250% farther in 2023. Comparing data from two seasons with such differing conditions validated how critical Lake Red Rock can be to their migration patterns, Dinsmore said. ...

Soon, the brown-feathered, white-bellied bird will make a monumental move, migrating thousands of miles south—across the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea—to South America.

Starting in October, the birds will begin migrating to Central and South America, where they will spend the winter. You generally won’t see summer tanagers in your backyard, except during their ...

Today, the seriema, a long-legged bird native to South America that stands up to 3-feet-tall, is thought to be a modern relative of Phorusrhacid. "It's a different kind of ecosystem than we see today ...