About Birds Birds are vertebrate animals adapted for flight. Many can also run, jump, swim, and dive. Some, like penguins, have lost the ability to fly but retained their wings.

Birds are warm-blooded vertebrates (vertebrates have backbones) and are the only animals with feathers. Although all birds have wings, a few species can't fly.

50 Birds, 50 States Barry the bald eagle soars from coast to coast to meet state birds and learn about their homes. Each episode is an animated rap music video focusing on the big cities, …

Owls, ospreys, and more!Sea eagles have a pretty amazing way of fighting off intruders! Watch them whirl in this video.

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Plastic found inside birds includes bags, bottle caps, synthetic fibers from clothing, and tiny rice-sized bits. Scientists have been tracking plastic ingestion by seabirds for decades.

The team expects to find more birds of paradise species in New Guinea's biodiverse forests, which are so isolated and remote that human development has not encroached greatly on the …

These flightless birds breed in the winter. After a courtship of several weeks, a female emperor penguin lays one single egg then leaves! Each penguin egg's father balances it on his feet and …

These graceful birds have been the national symbol of the United States since 1782. Bald eagles were on the brink of extinction because of hunting and pollution.

Snakes, cats, black bears, raccoons, and other birds such as house sparrows hunt adult and baby eastern bluebirds. Eastern chipmunks and flying squirrels like to eat eastern bluebird eggs.