Researchers from the University of New Hampshire are using solar-powered tags to track salt marsh sparrows and collect data ...

Amazingly, in the summer, New England provides more food for birds than the tropics. The abundance of insects (as well as available plants) will drop precipitously as winter approaches, ...

African penguins at the New England Aquarium will live well into their golden years on a new, private island specifically created for aging birds. Aquarium officials announced that six of its ...

A flock of birds in a Vermont backyard was put down after health officials found that the birds tested positive for H5N1 bird flu, or avian flu, the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets ...

Purple finches have already started to move south out of Canada. For the northern finches that do appear, you will have a wonderful new field guide to increase your knowledge of those finches.

They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation—which holds that new species emerge in response to ecological changes—seems to hold in retrospect, it has been ...