Billions of birds share the planet with us. With their flamboyant plumage and joyous dawn serenades, many of them are impossible to miss. But how did they get here, how did they break the bounds of ...

Imagine a world without birds. Just now, a jet-black, golden-eyed currawong flew low past my study window, changing the view. Yet, as Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris tell us in “The Book of Birds: ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Fossil discoveries unlock chapters of our planet’s storied ...

As winter approaches, the pile of bird books accumulates on my side table, to be read when hunters are wandering through the woods and the weather becomes uncooperative for birding. Like any book ...