Birds

Improving the design of the world's tiniest drones could start with taking a closer look at one of nature's smallest and most efficient flyers, the hummingbird.

COASST studies seasonal patterns of ocean debris to aid in the clean up of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Feed the birds — but not bread, crackers and junk food.

California brown pelicans almost completely failed to breed at their nesting sites in Mexico this year.

Thanks to a group of stubborn ospreys, a traffic cam watching over the flow of cars in Maryland has become an improvised wildlife cam.

A bird known for its gender-bending ways has yet again surprised researchers by breaking Europe's bird migration record.

Raven populations have shot up 300 percent in the last 40 years in the American West, and a new study suggests power poles and other human structures are to blame.

We thought it might have something to do with defending their nests against brood parasitism, a behaviour where other birds to raise your babies.

Despite the bad press, wind turbines are less of a threat to birds than traditional energy production and distribution.

The tailorbird was found in Cambodia's capital city of Phnom Penh.

Watch the film, then meet its star on your way home.