Winter offers us a chance to appreciate the backyard birds in our communities. Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Birds Canada ...

Welcome to the Bird Cams Lab, a project from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology now in development with support from the National Science Foundation. The goal of the project is to join viewers from around ...

Jane Kim working on “the Wall of Birds” at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (courtesy Ink Dwell and HarperCollins) Artist Jane Kim spent three years creating a colossal mural at the Cornell Lab of ...

Proteins are strikingly complex macromolecules, which control every aspect of molecular function in all living organisms, making them an interesting research target. The Ando Lab studies the structure ...

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 ...

I had a choice to make when I spent the night in Ithaca recently: I could visit either the main campus of Cornell University or the famed Cornell Lab of Ornithology several miles down the road, having ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Matthew Medler of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology about the best bird sounds of 2025 from their vast collection of recordings, and why their selections made the list.

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 ...

Today’s column is for those out there who can’t tell a phoenix from a griffin. Those are birds all right, but they are mythical ones. Nonetheless, there are plenty of birds around — and they may as ...

Kirsten Kurtz’s job is to sort through soil. She isn’t just digging through her backyard, however — as manager of the Cornell Soil Health Laboratory, Kurtz is responsible for bettering soil quality ...

Artist Jane Kim has just completed painting a 3,000-square-foot mural on the wall of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Visitor Center in Ithaca, New York, that depicts the evolution of birds. The mural ...