Birdwatchers at the Yellow River estuary in eastern China witnessed thousands of migratory birds sweeping across the sky in a vast, synchronized murmuration. The rare display unfolded on December 7 ...

As if confessing a secret story I didn’t even want to tell my friends, I write down this year’s final travel journal. A place ...

When I became serious about birding in the 1990s, I wasn’t thinking about milestone birds. Then they started creeping up. The ...

And it’s exactly what happened this year the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. As 2025 comes to a close, here are a few bite-sized stories that capture both the ...