The black-capped petrel is a small seabird with long, black-framed wings that is also known as diablotin, or “little devil,” due to its eerie nighttime mating calls. These birds nest in the Caribbean ...

Under cover of darkness, a new ashy storm petrel parent picks up small prey brought to the ocean's surface by the California current. Feeding and fledging of chicks is synchronized with the moon ...

Storm petrels typically nest on islands, but now, others have been seen in inland deserts and mountains. Sign up for Chip ...

Conservationists hope the sound of storm petrels' "churring" is an indication that an effort to eradicate rats on the Shiant Islands is working. The black rats are not native to the islands off ...

Adult storm petrels on Mousa, Shetland, were fitted with GPS devices to better understand where they foraged for plankton and small fish at night. The data revealed they were flying to a ...