These Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest images celebrate our feathered friends Text by Tracy Scott Forson Photographs ...

“You can get discouraged really quick,” said Grasser, “especially if it’s a new hobby, because birds are moving fast, and all of a sudden you’re taking these blurry photos. Go out and ...

In a new book, a curator at England's Natural History Museum describes rare and interesting nests and eggs—from the house ...

A bird known by enthusiasts for its elegance, but not commonly found in Ohio, may have been a bit lost when it landed in ...

The Galápagos Islands served as the site of Charles Darwin's famous flora and fauna observations and the inspiration behind his groundbreaking "On the Origin of Species," so it's hardly ...

Using cutting-edge techniques like optogenetics, they precisely switched off these inhibitory neurons in adult zebra finches. The results were remarkable. The birds, once thought to be stuck with ...

Researchers from the groups published a paper in June with a definitive list of birds that need finding. They scoured tens of millions of photos, videos and audio recordings in birding databases ...

Apple built machine learning into Photos starting in iOS 15 ... The Visual Look Up icon has a stylized drawing (like a bird or other category) in a circle with stars in its upper-left segment ...

This lush western province is home to verdant cloud forests that brim with native birds.

In one of his studies, 74% of urban female finches had no carotenoid-based coloration whatsoever, compared with just 48% of rural birds. Similarly, an analysis of 23 studies showed that across ...

That's going to fill a hard drive in no time. And even if you're snapping away on one of the best camera phones, the sheer volume of photos many people take can quickly take up a lot of space.