Following notable successes for birds at the national, state and international levels in 2025, 2026 offers more opportunity ...

Cowbirds are special among songbirds for the "watery" timbre of their singing, which resembles the sound of falling droplets striking water, a quick burst followed by a fading ripple.

Hummingbirds are some of the most beautiful and elegant creatures on earth, and inviting them into your yard is almost like ...

Fresh water is important to terrestrial life and anywhere it is seen in large quantities such as rivers, lakes even man-made ...

Some animals can sleep with just half their brain at a time. Understanding this phenomenon can help us learn more about human ...

In 1987, wildlife veterinarian Mark Pokras was in his office at Tufts University in Massachusetts when a colleague from New ...

Your kids might think that birds simply disappear for the winter. But plenty of species don’t actually migrate south during the cold months; others might be making your neighborhood their winter home.

The tallies a group of local birders kept Dec. 16 were part of a wider, ongoing effort to get a census count on bird species ...

According to co-author Brenton Cooper, a neuroscientist who studies speech and language, cowbirds briefly hold their breath ...

Ghassan Zaqtan's ‘An Old Carriage with Curtains’ concludes a landmark Palestinian trilogy, tracing memory, displacement and ...

This article appeared as ‘The Memory Of Fields’ in Outlook’s 30th anniversary double issue ‘Party is Elsewhere’ dated January ...

There was a saying that wherever it rained in Cyprus, it would also rain in Kornos. And it did. Until a fire practically wiped the forest off the map. I know this because I live just down the road. In ...