Arctic terns came back to Juneau in late April to nest at the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area. Gwen Baluss, a wildlife technician with the U.S. Forest Service, ensures their safety. She said signs ...

Large clusters appearing on weather radars are likely massive flocks of migrating birds, not storms. A record-breaking 1.2 billion birds were estimated to be migrating in a single night during the ...

Longer days are the catalyst that brings about hormonal changes, which alter avian behavior and physiology that stir migratory birds into long-distance flights to northern nesting grounds.

The phenomenon of migration isn’t exclusive to the neotropical migrants of the New World. Birds in other parts of the world migrate, too. Waterfowl, shorebirds and raptors are among some of the ...

After contorting under boulders for puffin chicks, chasing skittish tern chicks in the weeds and sitting as stone-silent sentinels in bird blinds to observe feeding and behavior, the five-person ...

Those "storm" clusters showing up on your weather radar this weekend probably shouldn't worry you — because they're likely not storms at all. They’re birds. Yes, a heck of a lot of birds. Radar ...