Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The club-winged manakin is a small passerine bird that is a resident breeding species on the western slopes of the Colombian Andes ...

Most bird bones are very thin, an adaptation to lighten the skeleton for the purpose of flight. So as a result their delicate bones do not fossilize well, which is why when even a single isolated ...

Scientists are celebrating the discovery of a nearly intact 12-million-year-old bird skeleton on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. The bones belonged to a gannet. Modern-day gannets are large seabirds ...

While most birds sing using a vocal organ called the syrinx, the male club-winged manakin (Machaeropterus deliciosus) does something truly unusual: it plays music with its wings. Hidden in the cloud ...

The club-winged manakin is a small passerine bird that is a resident breeding species on the western slopes of the Colombian Andes and in the cloud forests of northwestern Ecuador.© ibrahim ...