As Palo Alto officials prepare to adopt new rules to require bird-friendly building designs, some critics are urging the city to relax the rules for commercial structures.

It's always fun to watch birds perched on your backyard trees or feeding stations. And if they happen to be a rare sight in your area? You could easily spend a few hours looking up their ID, logging ...

Engineers at Stanford University have built a robotic bird to understand how birds are able to fly and perch on branches. The robot has a pair of snatching talons that attach to a circular flat base; ...

A newly developed, bio-inspired aerial robot can land on a variety of branches and carry objects like a bird. “Birds take off and land on a wide range of complex surfaces,” while “current robots are ...

Watching birds at our bird feeders this winter has been so much fun. We have feeders spaced out along the side and back of ...