Experts share the different types of finches in the UK and their characteristics as well as how to recognise them.

With a few minutes of searching, anyone can find videos online of chatty birds: macaws talk to their keepers, cockatoos sing to the camera, corvids mimic the jarring sounds of construction sites.

When winter arrives, Ogden becomes your gateway to some of Utah’s best skiing. Snowbasin, Powder Mountain, and Nordic Valley ...

Often regarded as a lucky symbol, grasshoppers are one of the oldest types of animals in the world, having first appeared ...

If you've ever wandered around the green spaces of Coventry it is quite likely you've spotted a brightly coloured bird that looks like it doesn't belong. Longford Park, the Wyken Slough and Coundon ...

Filoplumes may be tiny, but these hairlike feathers enable nonstop flights that span thousands of miles. Filoplumes may be tiny, but these hairlike feathers enable nonstop flights that span thousands ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Argentavis magnificens was so massive it should’ve stayed ...

Scientists once believed birds relied only on flight, talons and socialization for survival. But this one proves otherwise: it uses chemistry. For most of modern biology, there was a widely accepted ...

If you ride the Yellow or Green Line for your morning commute, leave yourself some extra time Friday morning. Both Metro lines experienced residual delays after the Yellow line was forced to ...

Imagine my excitement when I thought I had taken a photograph of a Carolina parakeet, an extinct bird. In the spirit of full disclosure, it was not a live bird (Hello! Extinct!) but an unlabeled, ...