The white-browed wagtail is a widespread resident with a black head, black mantle and white supercilium. A typical ground bird that wags its tail up and down. Black winged stilt is a long-legged ...

Valerie Sinex, owner of Wild Birds Unlimited in Yorba Linda, noticed a recent increase in customer sightings of exotic black and white birds with exceptionally long tails and bright red-orange bills.

You’d join your fellow colonizers in naming the bird a Baltimore oriole in honor of English colonizer Lord Baltimore, aka George Calvert (circa 1578-1632), whose orange and black coat of arms ...

One of my most exciting and colorful birds has returned to my backyard, the black-headed grosbeak. Rose-breasted grosbeaks can be seen during migration through Eastern Montana on their way to ...

Maleos, colourful Indonesian birds that look a bit like quirky chickens, are endangered. But an initiative to protect the species has helped boost the number of nesting birds at some sites. The ...

American white pelicans, with 9-foot, black-tipped wings and long orange beaks, are typically migratory birds. The birds’ numbers in the region dropped in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Flocks of 10,000-15,000 American avocets spend every winter in the shallow waters between Bolivar Flats and the North Jetty. They feed on aquatic beetles, larva, flies, midges, vegetation and ...