A contestant identified as Mr Oystercatcher imitates the local bird. (Corinne Smith/KBBI) Five-year-old Cassidy Allmendinger confidently walks to the mic on a makeshift-outdoor stage. She’s the first ...

WELLINGTON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - The puteketeke, a bird that pukes, grunts, growls and has bizarre mating rituals, won New Zealand’s bird of the century title in a competition where American-British ...

Through a binocular lens, Long Islanders are being challenged to turn casual bird watching into a spirited competition. Starting this spring, the state of New York’s Department of Environmental ...

On Tuesday, Google and Cornell University kicked off a competition that should excite those in the overlapping bit of the birding-and-AI-enthusiast Venn diagram. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and ...

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Oliver is urging voters to cast their vote in New Zealand's Bird of the Century competition. (HBO) On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, after taking some time out of the end to break down ...

Officials have uncovered evidence of voter fraud tampering with an important national contest when more than 1,500 fraudulent votes were submitted as part of New Zealand's "Bird of the Year" poll. The ...

Cal needed a Hail Mary on Sunday, but what it got instead was a scrub jay. In the first Cal-versus-Stanford birdathon, bird-watchers from Stanford counted more feathered species on campus than their ...

A new study helps reveal why tropical mountain birds occupy such narrow elevation ranges, a mystery that has puzzled scientists for centuries. While many assumed temperature was responsible for these ...