Times readers were invited to share their drawings of the avian life around them. Here are more of our favorites. By The New York Times All through the summer, as part of our birding project, The ...

The largest-ever study of bird genomes has produced a remarkably clear picture of the bird family tree. Published in the journal Nature today, our study shows that most of the modern groups of birds ...

An international team of scientists has built the largest and most detailed bird family tree to date—an intricate chart delineating 93 million years of evolutionary relationships between 363 bird ...

Creating a phylogeny of all bird life will help researchers map birds' evolutionary relationships and create conservation plans. Juniors Bildarchiv GmbH / Alamy For Charles Darwin, birds offered a ...