New Online Bird Course
Watch a 2-minute video about "Courtship and Rivalry in Birds," our new interactive course. 

Rooks Use Rocks to Reach Reward
Not just Aesop's Fable: Video captures rooks using stones to raise the water level. 

The Bird Watching Answer Book
Cornell Lab science editor Laura Erickson answers more than 200 questions in this insightful pocket-sized book. 

Holiday Gift Ideas from the Cornell Lab
Our latest eNewsletter features fun, educational, "green" gifts for your favorite bird enthusiast. 

Round Robin Blog: For Tropical Bird, Violin More Resonant than Aria
Researchers use lasers to see feathers vibrate as manakins woo their mates with "violin" rather than voice. 

Crows Can Recognize People. Can You Recognize Them?
Take the interactive crow ID test and hear the "Crow Paradox" explained on NPR's Morning Edition. 

Report Your Sightings to eBird!
Keep track of your bird sightings online and find out what's being reported in your area. 

The Birds of North America Online
18,000 pages of information on North America's breeding birds, now online! 

New nestlings bring cautious hope for Asia's Threatened vultures

New bare-headed songbirds discovered in Laos

Flying mouse-traps clean up fields

Toucans use enormous bills to cool off

Christmas cracker at South African roost

Early birds and changing climate

Meat-eating dinosaur with bird-like breathing system

Birds duet to fight and seek

Vulture crisis deepens

Bermuda Petrel returns to Nonsuch Island (Bermuda) after 400 years

Short-tailed Albatross chicks moved out of the shadow of the volcano

Beck's Petrel flies back from extinction

Bald Ibis Jigsaw Falling into Place

Local increase in vultures thanks to diclofenac campaign in Nepal

Common bird study reveals further decline of Europe's farmland birds

Canada protects boreal forest wilderness

Thousands of birds die in Black Sea oil spill

Birds vs Airport: Birds win!

Vulture-killing drug now on sale in Africa

Fijian seabird isles to be "de-ratted"

Largest flock for 100 years: Sociable Lapwing lives up to its name

Tropical birds depend completely on ants to flush prey

Unique spoon-billed bird facing extinction

Godwit makes huge migration flight!

"Junk" threatens re-establishment of California Condor

Globally threatened birds pay for their sex

Cormorants' nervous stomachs yield data

Bald Eagle Soars Off Endangered Species List

Stunning new hummingbird species needs immediate protection

Robins forced to sing at night to beat traffic noise (English, not American, Robins)

Bird 'flu follows trade, not migration routes

Vulture restaurants can reduce diclofenac deaths

Northern Bald Ibises return

Warbler, ?lost? for 139 years, rediscovered in Thailand and UK

Sociable Lapwing: Ornithologists "hit jackpot"

Brown Pelicans Rescued

Expedition solves Aquatic Warbler mystery

Storm Kills "Operation Migration" Whooping Cranes

Avian Influenza Update

Hopes soar after vulture chick hatches in India

'Lost' woodpecker reappears in Brazil

Swallow heralds Beijing's Olympic welcome

Bitter pill for Swallows

Mystery Shrouds Loss of Migrant Birds

Bauxite mining threatens unique Jamaican wildlife

New bird species discovered in Colombia

Charismatic island dwellers saved from extinction

Beck's Petrel is Back

Mystery shrouds loss of migrant birds

FAO says human activities, not wild birds, spread H5N1

Joining hands to preserve a flyway: Yucatan to New Jersey

Starlings' Listening Skills May Shed Light on Language Evolution

New Guinea "lost world" revealed

Rarest vultures join breeding programme

First wild bird cases of avian influenza in EU

Illegal imports probable cause of Nigeria flu

Are high risk farming practices spreading avian flu?

Review of bird news in 2005 from BirdLife International

Washington weather may be killing seabirds

Avian Flu Not a Danger for North American Bird Watchers

Birds begin spring singing