Getting into birding comes with a learning curve. Even if your backyard is a birdwatcher's paradise, figuring out which species you're looking at can take time. Luckily, you don't need to be an expert ...

Every spring, the familiar songs of Wood Thrushes and warblers return to the parks and backyards of eastern North America.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology launched the 2023 Great Backyard Bird Count in a virtual event on Wednesday afternoon. Hosted on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology YouTube channel, the webinar was attended ...

A new study shows that the "Five Great Forests" sustain billions of migratory birds, shaping spring across the Americas.

I had a choice to make when I spent the night in Ithaca recently: I could visit either the main campus of Cornell University or the famed Cornell Lab of Ornithology several miles down the road, having ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology drew more than 1,400 people to a rare behind the scenes open house Saturday. The last time the entire lab was opened to the public was in 2003, just after the current ...

I first discovered Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab of Ornithology earlier this summer, when I was trying to figure out the identity of a particular bird of prey in my neighborhood. After looking at a ...

Migratory birds that fill North American forests with spring songs depend on Central America’s Five Great Forests far more ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has awarded a $20,000 grant to the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast to conserve and restore habitat for the threatened Florida scrub jay. The restoration will ...

Cornell will begin construction of a new ornithology laboratory later this spring which will house one hundred employees, undergraduate and graduate students, who current make do with a cramped ...