a bird keeper at the National Zoo’s Bird House. It takes keepers a long time to acclimate these birds to strange objects like electronic scales, but enticing them with their favorite bugs for ...

Kate Rodriguez-Clark is an animal matchmaking guru. Among her responsibilities as a population ecologist for the Smithsonian, ...

Bao Li and Qing Bao, the pandas who moved from China to the National Zoo in October, are finally ready to meet their fans. The Giant Panda Habitat, Bird House and Asia Trail are currently closed ...

Caretakers with the zoo’s bird department have seen eight baby ... Also on July 5, an endangered Congo peafowl hatched at the Bird House, and a baby sibling hatched three days later. The species is ...