While there are already plenty of apps that help birdwatchers identify birds, most of them work by searching a database based on descriptions. Cornell University and the Visipedia research project's ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Last year, as pandemic lockdown restrictions hit the US, new bird ...

In between snowstorms lately, we’ve been able to enjoy the sounds of spring as our feathered friends wing north again for summer. Everyone knows the sound of a Canada goose honking and probably a ...

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 ...

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 ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A project to illustrate 270 species from the 243 modern bird families for a 70-foot by 40-foot mural at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca might have dwarfed others. Not artist ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s popular website, allaboutbirds.org, which provides information about nearly 600 species, attracts plenty of visitors. Many of them, though, fly away without a trace.