Look at all those mouths to feed! Marjorie Powell introduces the beautiful barn swallow. You may see these small birds ...

The striking scissor-tailed flycatcher is an icon of Oklahoma and beyond. Learn about their nests, diet and more.

Swift and graceful flyers, Common Terns are a delight to watch as they skim over the waters of Presque Isle or hover, then ...

Welcome to the first installment of “The Coolest Birds.” When I launched Paste Magazine with friends back in 2002, it was about our collective passion—for music, film, books and culture.

Scissor-tailed flycatchers are aerial death for flying insects, so these birds spend the spring and summer here and migrate in October to Mexico and Central America like other insect-eaters.

Although scissor-tails were protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, this poaching caused their populations to drop considerably. As the state bird of Oklahoma since 1951, the bird has ...

The researchers tracked 64 forked-tailed drongos over a span of nearly 850 hours in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa close to the Botswana border to unravel this unique behavior.

There was quite a stir this week among birdwatchers after the sighting of a swallow-tailed kite, a migratory bird of prey that hasn't been seen in Shawnee County since the 1970s. Though the birds a… ...

Conspicuous birds with black-and-white plumage, 2-foot-long bodies, 4-foot wing spans, 15-inch forked tails, delicate facial features, small beaks. Diet primarily made up of insects but also eats ...

The poisoning of a red kite, found dead near Loughbrickland, County Down, is being investigated by police. The bird of prey, which is a legally protected species in Northern Ireland, was discovered on ...