Scientists encountered five previously undescribed bird species during a six-week trip to three Indonesian islands, according to a new study. People like birds for more than just their appearances: ...

Before you start learning to identify bird songs, get yourself a small notebook so that you can take notes on the birds you see and hear. A sound recorder is useful, but good ones are expensive and ...

Once again, big data comes to the rescue … for identifying birds. A new app, Merlin, published by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology uses a database of 70 million bird sightings from the citizen-science ...