Get a field guide to Northern California birds to identify species like this great egret. (Photo by Mick Thompson) For most people, that is plenty of bird knowledge. I think a world where everyone ...

The habitat supports more than 300 bird species and 40 types of mammals, and is a major rest-stop for migratory birds coming up the Pacific Flyway.

Residents of a Northern California neighborhood are growing increasingly concerned about a string of mysterious—and often violent—bird deaths that seem to have no obvious explanation. In ...

A disturbing avian mystery is unfolding in a Northern California town where residents have reported birds "exploding." Residents of a neighborhood in the Bay Area community of Richmond, northeast ...

Northern California's raging wildfires have become "too extreme" even for certain types of birds that typically thrive in burned out forests, scientists say.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has confirmed they received two dead birds from Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for evaluation, after several birds were found dead in a Bay Area ...

Hummingbirds are in California in spring. Here’s how to identify species, where birds live and how to attract them to backyards and gardens.

The best bird watcher's guide is always going to be the one that's already in your pocket. Here are some of our favorite 2020 birding apps for iOS and Android.

Song surveys show that species key to spreading seeds are shuffling up and down the mountain.

Western tanagers are migratory birds that are present in Northern California in the spring and again in late summer. A new study shows that observations by 'citizen scientists' using apps such as ...

Calliope hummingbirds are a tiny species found mostly in Northern California. According to eBird, the best time to see one is in the spring when they travel north, taking a different route for ...

Three years ago, the California condor returned to the skies over Humboldt County for the first time in over a century. The Yurok Tribe, for whom the bird is a sacred symbol, has now released over ...