A summer of birdwatching reveals nesting mysteries, territorial truce, and daily song as local species — from phoebes to ...

So, let’s take a little birding trip to the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. Puffins in cliffs in the Shetlands Islands have been a recent ...

Squirrels build nests, or dreys, that can easily be mistaken for a bird's nest. You can determine which is which by the nest ...

The Birds In Helping Hands founder said it's illegal to cut down most bird nests.

Founded by ecological researcher Bradley Allf, The Concrete Chorus Project investigates what makes birds thrive in cities.

The sun’s rays reached out from the horizon through a vibrant turquoise sky as if wanting to embrace all that they ...

Tompkins County in New York State is arguably the best birded county in North America. Cornell University, with its Cornell Lab of Ornithology located there in Ithaca, has produced numerous ...

I had my first fall migrant in the yard — a male rufous hummingbird. It is amazing how early these guys show up each year. It has ...

The team is "here to stay," no matter what, lead researcher Keith Bowers said, amid federal funding changes for scientific ...

A male spotted towhee has a black head, back and tail with a white ... and whatever things you find in leaf litter.” This bird builds a nest on or near the ground using leaves, stems, pine needles and ...

The eastern towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus, or “red-eyed chipper”) is found in much of the eastern United States. The species belongs to the New World sparrow family, a group native to the Americas ...