birds
December 6, 2024
Winged things
The Burke Museum exhibit shares beautiful and endangered flighted species through art and interactive experiences.
November 21, 2020
Be a bird’s buddy
More than 4 billion birds are moving through North America during fall migration. An expert shares some ways to aid in their journey.
March 24, 2020
Hummingbird man
What makes hummingbirds so fascinating? We asked UW expert Alejandro Rico-Guevara.
December 1, 2019
A tern for the worse
Feeding the wrong food to chicks could spell disaster for several species of terns.
September 2, 2019
Warming sea
A die-off points to a larger-scale, longer-term problem with the food supply caused by warming seas.
September 7, 2017
Birdman
“We’re in the ideal spot for owls,” says Paul Bannick, a wildlife photographer who climbs trees and hikes tundra to capture images of the nocturnal predator.
August 18, 2017
Audobon honors
Heather Roskelley, ’83, made a magical image of a notoriously elusive bird.
September 1, 2015
High fliers
“Let’s flap.” The 20 adults in the room obediently flapped their arms and when nothing happened, in the face of their leader’s enthusiasm for winged flight and all things avian, began flapping even harder in the vain hope of soaring.
December 1, 2014
Clues from bird brains
Brain cells that multiply to help birds sing their best during breeding season are known to die back naturally later in the year. For the first time, researchers have described the series of events that cue new neuron growth each spring.
September 1, 2012
Passion for nature
In their new book, nature artist Tony Angell and UW professor of wildlife science John Marzluff disabuse the notion that the family of birds known as corvids—crows, jays, magpies—possess mere “bird brains.”
September 1, 2010
Elephant vs. bird
Elephants may be the biggest factor in the impending disappearance of a tiny bird.
March 1, 2009
Songbirds' secrets
UW Professor of Psychology and Zoology Michael Beecher wanted to understand the social dimensions of learning how and from whom birds learn to sing in the wild. So he and his students began tramping through the thickets of Seattle's Discovery Park to find out.
September 1, 2005
Crow encounters
Oregon may be one of the UW’s archrivals, but anyone who has spent time on the Seattle campus in June will tell you that the crow, not the duck, is the Huskies’ true nemesis.
December 1, 1992
For the birds
As a professor of environmental studies and zoology, Dee Boersma is known for her research on penguins and storm-petrels.