Scientific evidence suggests dinosaurs met their extinction through asteroid impact. Today, if a species goes extinct, chances we as humans had something to do with it. In this century alone, we've ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dec. 14 marked the start of the 126th annual Christmas Bird Count, which will run until Jan. 5. Teams of birders, and ...

This course will provide an in-depth exploration of field ornithology, including avian evolution, functional morphology, physiology, ecology and behavior of birds. Field and lab-based study will ...

Tim Birkhead has spent much of the past four decades watching birds, and in particular mucking around guano-covered ledges on which seabirds breed. His insights have revolutionized ornithologists' ...

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 ...

Welcome to the Bird Cams Lab, a project from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology now in development with support from the National Science Foundation. The goal of the project is to join viewers from around ...

Frederick II was the first "modern" ornithologist, studying birds in detail in the 13th century to fuel his passion for falconry. Wikimedia Commons Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor born on this ...

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 ...

Not long ago, Hollywood was basking in its Peak TV age, with prestige cable fare like Breaking Bad and Mad Men sweeping the Emmys and dominating the zeitgeist. But these days, television could be said ...

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