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Attract them to your yard with a hummingbird feeder that stores nectar, or plant flowers such as bee balm, hostas, petunias, ...
Nature Saskatchewan is drawing attention to one of the province’s most unique and endangered grassland birds, the ...
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 ...
Adirondack birding experts debate which bird call defines summer. Red-eyed vireo, common loon, and hermit thrush compete for ...
On July 1, Lukas Le Grice, 16, led the fourth annual Ojai Valley Summer Bird Count.
"All whooping cranes today are descended from only 14 adults remaining on the Texas coast in 1941", he added. Thanks to decades of legal protection, habitat restoration and cross-border collaboration, ...
Farmers in Italy's northeastern Po Delta region are battling an unusual pest: flamingos. These birds have been invading rice ...
The Anhinga is a Florida waterbird that has an extremely unusual "song" that sounds more like a sick frog than a bird.
So, when they encountered small, brownish native birds, they named them Song Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, and so on. Never mind that these birds, collectively known today as New ...
Birds with “house” built into their names are, not surprisingly, common urban residents. Three such birds found in Minnesota include the house wren, house finch and house sparrow. Here’s a quick bio ...
A catbird was skulking around the forsythia in my backyard this morning, but she was stealthy enough to keep their nest a ...
The dinosaurs have returned! Birds are, by dint of evolution, a living link to dinosaurs. To remind ourselves of that, we ...