With a surface larger than all the continents together, the Pacific Ocean is the most extreme environment a migratory bird can encounter. Yet there are several bird species that conquer this enormous ...

Every autumn, billions of birds leave their breeding areas when the temperature drops and food gets scarce to spend the winter in more favorable climes, returning the following spring when warm ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and University of Konstanz in Germany have identified how large land birds fly nonstop for hundreds of kilometers over the open ocean—without ...

Seabirds evolved about 60 million years ago, as Earth’s continents drifted toward their current positions and modern oceans took shape. They spread across thousands of undisturbed islands in the ...

This study is a major breakthrough in what is known about the effects of climate change on sea birds. It shows for the first time the impact of long-cycle climate variation (in this case PDO) on the ...

If you’re not familiar with them, baby puffins are called pufflings, and around this time of year, they make the journey from various parts of Iceland to the ocean. However, as this video shows, some ...

A wiry black bird called a cormorant dives under waves and comes up with a fish in its beak. This is a familiar sight to many people who spend time near the ocean. Cormorants are such good hunters, ...