Here & Now 's Robin Young visits the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ahead of Global Big Day on Saturday — a big day for birders.

In the last few years, birding has exploded out of niche hobby status to become one of the most popular outdoor activities in the U.S. Roughly 96 million Americans report watching, feeding or tracking ...

One summer night three years ago, a chimney swift flitted over the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area, where a scraggly-looking antenna sensed a radio frequency pulse given off by a transmitter no ...

Migratory birds that travel in flocks often line up in a V-shaped formation, a sight many of us are familiar with when watching them in the sky. For a long time, scientists thought this arrangement ...

Even the giant wings of the albatross are not ‘optimally’ shaped for their extraordinary long-distance migrations, according ...