Although some shorebirds prefer habitats further from the water, most are found at the water’s edge. It may seem strange for ...

A new push for more oil and gas drilling, mining, and logging threatens irreparable damage to irreplaceable habitats.

For more than a century, the USGS program has revealed crucial insights about where birds go, how they’re faring, and what we ...

Funding cuts, begun by DOGE and now deepened in proposed budgets, are putting wildlife and public lands at risk and harming both Alaska’s environment and economy.

More than 200 modern bird species nest in the Arctic, braving the harsh conditions each year. But these birds will migrate out of the area over the winter or have adapted to the freezing temperatures.

Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million years earlier than previously thought ...

A major collection of more than 50 bird fossils found in northern Alaska suggest some ancient ancestors of modern birds learned to either adapt to the harsh Arctic winter, or migrate south during ...

A collection of fossils discovered in northern Alaska shows that birds were nesting in harsh Arctic environments as early as 72.8 million years ago. The fossil assemblage, uncovered from the Late ...

Arctic terns make even longer journeys of 10,000 miles and more from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica, while great snipes fly over food-poor deserts and seas, sometimes covering 4,200 miles in four ...

The Mississippi Flyway sounds like an area of the sky managed by the FAA, but this heavily trafficked route is more often populated by birds. It is one of the four primary “roadways” for North ...