With its bright golden mantle and jet-black body, it would be hard to mistake the yellow-headed blackbird for any other ...

In late June and early July, groups of yellow-crowned night herons will begin to leave their New Orleans nests. First they ...

A red-capped manakin will moonwalk better than Michael Jackson in a lek of others when it wants to attract a female mate.

A seagull's head was marked with a swastika and its feathers were ripped out by an inmate at a prison in England; the gull is ...

In 1827, naturalist John Audubon announced a massive discovery: the largest North American eagle. But did the Washington sea eagle exist?

Unlike birds whose plumage is mostly blue, the green coloring of a green bird‘s feathers is the result of pigment, not a trick of the light. These birds’ emerald green, lime green, chartreuse, or ...

Cormorants are mainly black with yellow-orange coloring around their faces and bills. Depending on the species, cormorants typically weigh between 1 and 11 pounds and have a wingspan of 2 to 3 feet.

What is a cool bird? Cool types of birds can be beautiful birds, uncommon birds, or even the weirdest birds. Of course, what ...

A water rail's voice is the easiest way to identify this secretive bird — it's a loud grunting/squealing pig-like call from a ...

After the arrival of later summer visitors such as Spotted flycatchers, Honey buzzards and Nightjars, mid June becomes the ...

That “one and done” refers to a successful nesting of a paired set of plovers, from gestation to fledging. Plovers nest each ...

To see the summer sky is poetry, though never in a book it lie, true poems flee.” – Emily Dickinson Tonight’s the night! At ...