Many Native Americans are marking ceremonies like graduations with bald eagle feathers, a form of reverence for the bird they ...

The bright contrast of yellow and black on a spider may make it look very scary, but most do more good than harm. Here's how to identify friends and foes.

Whether birds in flight, mushrooms in the grass or architecture in mysterious light – this week's images show how differently ...

Learn what a yellow-headed blackbird looks like and where to find this bird. Also discover facts about their sounds, nests, diet and more.

Across time and geography, the eagle has remained a constant in the world of national symbols. From ancient empires to ...

Amazingly, a white ibis was found eating cicadas around the parking lot of Mashpee High School, representing just the second-ever June record for New England. A rare Say’s phoebe from the western US ...

I didn’t flush up the yellow-crowned night heron. The Key deer did. But me slowing down on Watson Boulevard to get a better ...

This gull is around 69-73 centimetres long with a wingspan of 156-160 centimetres. The great black-backed gull is a common breeding species found here — at the coast and on estuaries — all ...

One further clue to differentiate between these two birds is the frontal shield: a platelike prolongation of their beaks that reaches up to their forehead. The shield of the moorhen is bright red with ...

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...

Magic Johnson revealed that Larry Bird was the only white player widely respected in Black communities, calling him the only opponent he ever feared.