JESSAMINE COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — A group of swallow-tailed kites has made a migratory pit stop in Jessamine County, drawing ...

I’ll admit it. I was a nerd in elementary school. I don’t mean that I was smarter than the other kids. I mean that my primary social crowd was “the nerds.” And—no—peer crowd labels like “the nerds,” ...

Imagine a world without birds. Just now, a jet-black, golden-eyed currawong flew low past my study window, changing the view. Yet, as Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris tell us in “The Book of Birds: ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Sixty-three years after the release of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, one of the most recognizable horror titles in the history of cinema is getting a remake in the form of a limited series.

The baby owl that Bart Richwalski picked up in the fall was unlike anything the wildlife rehabilitator had seen. The bird had become trapped in a truck-mounted concrete mixer, leaving hardened ...

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Birds are amazing animals. They are highly diverse in size, shape, color, and lifestyles, and detailed research continues to show that they are intelligent, emotional, and sentient beings, so being ...

In a study, Australian cockatoos figured out that a new food was OK to consume by observing one another, a vivid example of “social learning” in animals. By Kate Golembiewski By watching their peers, ...

European Great Tits and 36 other bird species on the continent are more afraid of women than they are of men, according to a recent study—and researchers have no idea why. In the study, men could get ...

The following is an edited extract from The Story of Birds: A New History From Their Dinosaur Origins To the Present I will never forget my first dinosaur wing. I was a college student, on my first ...

In “The Story of Birds,” the familiar creatures in our skies and backyards are reintroduced as the last surviving dinosaurs. The following is an excerpt from “The Story of Birds: A New History from ...