This is the second collaboration by the authors focused on uncovering the stories of remarkable women from Lycoming County.

The American Ornithological Society will remove people’s names from birds. Many of those birds are now named after prominent Philadelphia scientists. In ''American Ornithology,'' Alexander Wilson ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the ...

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 ...

Bird enthusiasts are familiar with Wilson’s Plover, Wilson’s Snipe and Wilson’s Warbler. But who is Wilson, and why are these birds named after him? Ornithology expert Jed Burtt reveals and explores ...

How do birds evolve over generations? How do different bird populations diverge into new species? Ornithologists have been asking these questions since the days of Darwin, but rapid advances in ...

The study of wild birds has had a disproportionate impact on the birth and evolution of several branches of science. Thus argue Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny and Bob Montgomerie in Ten Thousand Birds. In ...

Nineteenth-century ornithologists, like journalists, specialized in the — who, what, where, when — of observing birds. Many birds of this era were collected in the field, stuffed and studied, leading ...

This course will provide an in-depth exploration of field ornithology, including avian evolution, functional morphology, physiology, ecology and behavior of birds. Field and lab-based study will ...