The Cornell Lab of Ornithology welcomes the Ithaca community on Saturday, Sept. 13 for its annual Migration Celebration. The free, family-friendly event commemorates the fall bird migration. From 10 a ...

I first discovered Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab of Ornithology earlier this summer, when I was trying to figure out the identity of a particular bird of prey in my neighborhood. After looking at a ...

Grant Van Horn, a researcher at the Cornell Ornithology Lab, used artificial intelligence to identify bird calls. Cornell’s free birding app just added a ‘Shazam for bird songs’ The Cornell Lab of ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has awarded a $20,000 grant to the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast to conserve and restore habitat for the threatened Florida scrub jay. The restoration will ...

There’s nothing like getting outside this time of year if you’re a bird watcher. The winter migration of waterfowl from down south to the north is well underway, with millions of ducks and geese ...

They’re always in the trees or perched on balconies, watching and tweeting in rain or shine. Ithaca has for decades fostered a special connection to birds, with Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology hosting ...

The color and life birds bring to my landscape are among the greatest joys of my gardening. Admittedly, I don’t know much about what I am seeing. That’s in the process of changing, though, thanks to ...

Scientific evidence suggests dinosaurs met their extinction through asteroid impact. Today, if a species goes extinct, chances we as humans had something to do with it. In this century alone, we've ...

As humans hunker down and nest at home during coronavirus concerns, birds are returning to the area with their usual plans of making their own nests. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology says there’s a lot ...

Disparate citizen science disciplines come together at the Public Participation in Scientific Research conference by Liza Lester, ESA communications officer The idea of a big, cross-disciplinary ...