If you’re ready to give this hobby a try, a good place to start is learning about the small birds you’re most likely to spot in your backyard. We’ve rounded up 15 common backyard birds, along with ...

A small, colourful bird with vibrant wings, the rainbow lorikeet displays a stunning mix of green, blue, yellow, and red feathers, making it one of the most beautiful birds in the world.

From a species that was nearly hunted to extinction to a breed that declined due to habitat loss, here are five rare birds ...

We usually think of seasonal changes in terms of the weather, what we eat, or the clothes we wear. But in nature, some ...

“Awkward” would probably be the most benevolent word I could use to describe the explosive launch into flight of the California quail. Certainly, the words graceful or athletic do not come to ...

The tiny Wilson’s warbler, with its bright yellow feathers, weighs less than half an ounce with a wingspan stretching only 6 inches. A bug-eating bird, it is fond of dense stands of willow in ...

Bird wing shape -- a proxy for long-distance flying ... because it is harder for species to reach them; and second, larger islands have a higher number of species, because they experience fewer ...