New Zealand has named the pekapeka-tou-roa, or long-tailed bat, as their Bird of the Year, despite the fact that bats are not birds. Some have criticized the call as a publicity stunt to recuperate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The winner in question pekapeka-tou-roa, or long-tailed bat, a tiny bat native to the country. An organization named Forest & Bird ...

Every spring, billions of migratory songbirds in Europe fly north to their breeding grounds. Most of these birds fly at night when no predators are around — or so the experts thought. But researchers ...

Bats are incredibly diverse animals: They can climb onto other animals to drink their blood, pluck insects from leaves or hover to drink nectar from tropical flowers, all of which require distinctive ...

Bats, lauded for scooping up mosquitoes and other nasty pests but reviled for drinking blood and spreading rabies, now have another unpopular habit to live down — it appears they eat songbirds, ...

Research teams studying bats and birds gather in Panama’s Soberanía National Park to celebrate the launch of a long-term census of bats designed to complement the bird census, which will celebrate its ...

In a few weeks, warming spring weather will draw out birds, bees and bats to feed, pollinate and nest. You can attract them to your yard with man-made habitats that you build or buy. You'll need ...