The sky is a vast, empty place. Nothing up there but birds, planes, clouds — and some low-flying satellites. Virtually everything that goes up there must eventually come down since birds need to eat ...

Geese lift off a lake in front of a sun pillar at Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge near Mound City, Missouri. © Mike Hollingshead/Corbis As summer turns to fall ...

Five thousand birds fell from the sky just as Arkansans were ringing in the New Year--and so far, no one is exactly sure why. The little avian casualties all happened in a one-mile area of Beebe, a ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Why do flocks of birds swoop and swirl together ...

There are three species of bats that eat birds. We know that because we have found feathers and other avian remains in their feces. What we didn’t know was how exactly they hunt birds, which are quite ...