Here’s a look at these easygoing birds of North America and the qualities that make them so abundant. Check out 15 backyard birds you should know. Male red-wings, flashing their scarlet shoulder ...

Yet billions of birds, especially migratory songbirds like warblers, vireos, thrushes, hummingbirds and orioles that breed in North America winter in the tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Bird populations are experiencing steep declines globally, with North America losing more than 25% of all breeding birds since 1970. While long-term monitoring has revealed these troubling trends ...

Great egrets and little blue herons. Blue-winged warblers and yellow-bellied sapsuckers. Snowy owls and tropical kingbirds. Across North America, three-fourths of bird species are in decline ...