The Cornell Lab of Ornithology welcomes the Ithaca community on Saturday, Sept. 13 for its annual Migration Celebration. The free, family-friendly event commemorates the fall bird migration. From 10 a ...

I first discovered Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab of Ornithology earlier this summer, when I was trying to figure out the identity of a particular bird of prey in my neighborhood. After looking at a ...

Grant Van Horn, a researcher at the Cornell Ornithology Lab, used artificial intelligence to identify bird calls. Cornell’s free birding app just added a ‘Shazam for bird songs’ The Cornell Lab of ...

Scientific evidence suggests dinosaurs met their extinction through asteroid impact. Today, if a species goes extinct, chances we as humans had something to do with it. In this century alone, we've ...

The color and life birds bring to my landscape are among the greatest joys of my gardening. Admittedly, I don’t know much about what I am seeing. That’s in the process of changing, though, thanks to ...

If you’ve ever heard a bird sing and wondered how you could possibly figure out what type of bird it could be without laboriously searching through recordings, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology now has ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has awarded a $20,000 grant to the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast to conserve and restore habitat for the threatened Florida scrub jay. The restoration will ...

They’re always in the trees or perched on balconies, watching and tweeting in rain or shine. Ithaca has for decades fostered a special connection to birds, with Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology hosting ...

Merlin was on the job at Westwood Hills Nature Center in St. Louis Park one recent day, helping birders identify bird songs. Not Merlin the storied magician, although what was happening could be ...

As humans hunker down and nest at home during coronavirus concerns, birds are returning to the area with their usual plans of making their own nests. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology says there’s a lot ...