Bird enthusiasts are familiar with Wilson’s Plover, Wilson’s Snipe and Wilson’s Warbler. But who is Wilson, and why are these birds named after him? Ornithology expert Jed Burtt reveals and explores ...

The American Ornithological Society will remove people’s names from birds. Many of those birds are now named after prominent Philadelphia scientists. In ''American Ornithology,'' Alexander Wilson ...

Up to 30% of bird diversity hotspots, places where large numbers of different bird species occur, in the western United ...

The study of wild birds has had a disproportionate impact on the birth and evolution of several branches of science. Thus argue Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny and Bob Montgomerie in Ten Thousand Birds. In ...

Nineteenth-century ornithologists, like journalists, specialized in the — who, what, where, when — of observing birds. Many birds of this era were collected in the field, stuffed and studied, leading ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology launched the 2023 Great Backyard Bird Count in a virtual event on Wednesday afternoon. Hosted on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology YouTube channel, the webinar was attended ...

Lined with endless rows of white cabinets, Harvard’s Ornithology Collection is imposing — even mausoleum-like — upon first glance; it’s only after opening the drawers that the true colors of the ...