On the open savannas of East Africa, a flock of vulturine guinea fowl looks almost unreal. Bodies are patterned with crisp ...

Have you ever wondered how wild birds cope with baking hot afternoons and freezing cold mornings? Our new study has taken a close look at one of Africa’s most familiar birds – the helmeted guineafowl ...

The vulturine guinea fowl’s electric blue feathers are not pigments. Scientists reveal how microscopic structures manipulate ...

I am not a true birder. In a walk through the woods, true birders stop, raise a finger, alert others to the birdsong and then identify the bird. Sometimes they point out the bird itself, proving that ...

ROARING CREEK TOWNSHIP -- A woman from Columbia County is having issues with rare birds that have shown up on her property. "They're not like chicken size," Emily DeWald of Roaring Creek Township said ...

Months before I lead a safari, I have to refresh my species identification skills, carefully going through several field guides’ illustrations. Birds are by far the most complex for which to prepare.

Ella Lee Forest, a middle-class enclave just outside Loop 610, seems an unlikely place for a breed of fowl more suited to a ranch than ranch houses. But on any given day, this flock of skittish ...

Complex societies were thought to only exist among mammals, including humans, other primates, elephants, giraffes and dolphins. But a new study shows that vulturine guinea fowl, a bird with ...

A gutsy guineafowl ruffled feathers Tuesday when it strutted into a Brooklyn gas station and forced cops to temporarily toss it behind bars, according to police. Workers at the BP station on Empire ...