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Flying Dinosaurs: Leaping and Gliding
For years, scientists debated whether the first flying dinosaurs, the ancestors of modern birds, began by running and making little hops off the grou…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Hilarious Bird Sounds With Becca Rowland
Birds make a lot of sounds — so many that author and illustrator Becca Rowland had a hard time keeping them straight. That was until Becca began pick…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Create Bird Habitat at Home with Native Plants
Birds have lost many habitats they’ve called home for millions of years, but people can help create bird habitats wherever they live. It all begins w…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
The Joy of Robins with J. Drew Lanham
J. Drew Lanham is a poet and ornithologist whose work intertwines his lived experience as a Black man in the American south and his love of wildernes…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Millicent Ficken Studied How Birds Play
Millicent Ficken spent her career studying bird behavior and communication. The first woman to earn a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Co…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
The Vulture's Iron Stomach
Circling silently above the earth on broad, black wings, vultures need little introduction. We know them as nature's clean-up crew, dining on dead an…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Lifer Pie
In birding lingo, a lifer — or life bird — is any species you see or hear for the first time. Birders get very excited about lifers. Some even mark t…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Eagle, the Cactus, and the City on the Lake
In one of the most iconic founding legends of the Americas, a Golden Eagle devouring a serpent atop a cactus marked the spot where the Mexicas would …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Robins Nest On Moving Solar Arrays
Solar panels are a popular source of renewable energy, but large groupings of them — called arrays — can take up a lot of space. Chelse Prather, an e…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
BirdNoir: That Raptor’s an Impostor!
In this episode of BirdNoir, the Private Eye gets a call from his friend Frank, his eyes and ears in the neighborhood. He’s hearing a Red-shouldered …
7 months, 3 weeks ago