If you’re in Alabama’s Black Belt this summer, perhaps for this weekend’s birding festival, you’ll almost certainly get to see this haunting bird circling overhead. “It’s like going to an air show ...

A shape-shifting flock of thousands of starlings, called a murmuration, is amazing to see. As many as 750,000 birds join together in flight. The birds spread out and come together. The flock splits ...

This story originally published online in The 9th Street Journal. It’s Tuesday evening at the Velvet Hippo’s rooftop bar. From the wooded deck, a few dozen hipster bargoers admire a picture-perfect ...