Stacker compiled a list of the most commonly hunted migratory birds in California using data from the Fish & Wildlife Service. Duck and goose species are ranked by the estimated 2021 hunting ...

This is the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, one of a number of spots in California for birds traveling along the Pacific Flyway, a migratory path that stretches from Alaska to the tip of ...

ARBUCKLE, Calif.—On a misty December morning, a few dozen sandhill cranes stood in shallow water in the middle of a flooded rice field in the Sacramento Valley, about 90 miles north of San ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife said Friday that the highly pathogenic avian influenza was detected in migratory birds in several counties across the state. Lezlie Sterling ...

Until recently, tracking tags were too large and heavy for small songbirds ... to track the movements of birds in California during the winter as well as during migration. Since they’re only ...