The 10,000-plus North Carolinians who answered Audubon NC’s recent call and established nest boxes for habitat-challenged brown-headed nuthatches may be wrestling with a puzzle this spring. Are ...

The finding is a first for the fossil record and may shed light on why birds have beaks and not teeth. The group ranged from babies to adults and showed a pattern of tooth loss over time.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Biologist Colleen Handel saw her first black-capped chickadee with the heartrending disorder in 1998. The tiny birds showed up at birdfeeders in Alaska's largest city ...

Scientists are one step closer to understanding how modern birds evolved to have beaks, and the answer starts millions of years ago with some of the sexiest dinosaurs. Modern gulls, with their ...

The bird had breeding grounds in coastal areas of both North Carolina and South Carolina, The N&O previously reported. It was last seen around Charleston in the early 1960s.

The research teams found that beaks of great tits living in a long-term study site, Wytham Woods in the UK (949 birds total; grey triangle, Figure 1), were 0.3mm longer, on average, than beaks of ...

Some great tits in the United Kingdom are getting long in the beak — and it may have something to do with a British fondness for bird feeders. Parus major songbirds are thought to be relatively ...