Birds that dive underwater — such as penguins, loons and grebes — may be more likely to go extinct than their nondiving kin, a new study finds. Many water birds have evolved highly specialized bodies ...

Diving birds like penguins, puffins and cormorants may be more prone to extinction than non-diving birds, according to a new study. The authors suggest this is because they are highly specialized and ...

Many kinds of bird regularly forage for prey underwater. These birds have a variety of ways of doing so and adaptations to match. Life in the water is very different from life in the air. The first ...

It was a tense 3 1/2-hour car ride for Cyndi Routledge, who was chasing down a creature never seen before in Tennessee. Routledge, secretary of the Tennessee Ornithological Society, had gone on drives ...

If you thought your winter was difficult, consider how much worse it would have been if you had to spend it floating on frigid water that was freezing over more every day, feeding yourself by diving ...

Waterfowl are and have been, at least among those who hunt them, been categorized into either the dabbling duck clan or the diving ducks based for the most part on how they feed . Dabbling ducks ...

Even 35 years later, small details about the one and only time Don Torino saw an Anhinga — a unique kind of water bird — peek through his memory. The president of the Bergen County Audubon Society ...

Capt. Kris Robert, right, and client Joe Murphy hammered the speckled trout Wednesday fishing under diving seagulls in Lake Pontchartrain. (Kris Robert photo) Anglers from Southeast Louisiana who take ...