Researchers at a north-central Ohio marsh will celebrate a milestone on Saturday when they band the 50,000th bird after decades of work to understand local populations and movement patterns. Bird ...

WELLFLEET — James Junda reaches into a net set up in the middle of the woods and untangles a bird, an American redstart. The bird chirps loudly in an apparent cry for help. Junda threads his fingers ...

If you see a bird with some bling around it’s leg, it isn’t a bracelet: it’s a bird band. Researchers at the banding station at the Navarre Marsh Unit of Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge use the bands ...

The Bird Banding Laboratory has turned duck hunters into citizen scientists. What happens if it is defunded? By Alexa Robles-Gil For more than a century, the Bird Banding Laboratory has placed small ...

I remember back when I was a kid it was a rare sighting to see a bird banded or a wolf wearing a radio collar. Nowadays these are more common sightings but how much good does this actually do? I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pine siskins, yellow-breasted chats and golden-winged warblers have all been confirmed at Presque Isle State Park in recent weeks.

Outside the National Zoo’s Bird House, small white cotton bags hung on hooks, each holding a bird that ornithologist Brian Evans and his team had netted that Saturday morning. Now and then, they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Denver Audubon is running its fall bird banding program at the Kingery Nature Center in Chatfield State Park through Oct. 15, ...

AIP graduate student and bird banding station volunteer Molly Toth of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was published in Wild Hope magazine. In "Resilience on the Wing" (beginning on page 34) Molly shares how ...

Ever wonder how scientists study birds? In this backyard bird banding program, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center scientist, Dr. Brian Evans demonstrates how scientists band birds, first showing the ...

A handful of teenagers sits inside a dark conference room, eyes fixed on a window that faces a garden. They remain still and quiet to not scare away their targets, which fly around and only ...