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 found worldwide and ...

Prized as game birds and reared for their meat and eggs, these stout-bodied birds often have short, rounded wings because they spend most of their time on the ground. Their thick legs and big feet ...

Before the day breaks on a winter morning at the Pong Lake wetland in northern India, muffled honks of geese are heard in the ...

As winter weather comes down from the north, bringing with it ice along the Mississippi River, eagles, trumpeter swans, and other birds travel flight paths to the delight of area ...