About Birds Birds are vertebrate animals adapted for flight. Many can also run, jump, swim, and dive. Some, like penguins, have lost the ability to fly but retained their wings.

Birds are warm-blooded vertebrates (vertebrates have backbones) and are the only animals with feathers. Although all birds have wings, a few species can't fly.

Looking across the assortment of birds featured here, you’ll notice that each species is vastly different from the others, either in color, shape, or feather arrangement.

Learn about the dozens of species called birds of paradise. Discover the dramatic, brightly colored plumage that sets them apart from their peers.

Owls, ospreys, and more!Sea eagles have a pretty amazing way of fighting off intruders! Watch them whirl in this video.

Using an innovative approach that combined advanced technology, scientists developed a “robotic tutor,” a device capable of emitting the forgotten melody so that young birds could …

The unlikely comeback of America’s most endangered songbird Conservationists went to dramatic lengths to save the birds, including pumping boiling hot water into the ground to ward off fire ants.

Scientists are researching how coots and other birds adapt to urban environments and whether that move is even a good thing.

Secretary birds can be found in a number of protected areas across their large range, but scientists say better monitoring is needed to track their numbers and quantify their decline in …

DID YOU KNOW? The association between the words “cuckoo” and “crazy” may come from in which birds build a “cuckoo cloud land” to separate gods from humans.