To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Two rare coastal birds, the Piping Plover and the Brown Booby, are expected to be in Central Texas this July.

Grackles tend to congregate in large ... bird. The great-tailed grackle is distinguished from its close cousin the common grackle by its larger body, and the male has a long, keel-shaped tail.

These people may have been inspired by animals they observed in nature, where there are many birds with mohawks that rival ...

Nevertheless, nature still has the ability to surprise us. Take the shoebill, for example: a bird so bizarre, it almost ...