Wading through a clear knee-deep tidal pool in coastal Florida, I was trying to move slowly, to avoid disturbing a gorgeous American oystercatcher napping on a small sandbar. Oystercatchers are ...

Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.

This is a small bright yellow bird with beady black eye. Only the male has the small black cap. Length bill tip to tail tip: 5 inches. Voice: Song a long trill on one pitch, ending with a couple ...

This time of year I get a lot of emails and texts from people reporting they hear an owl hooting outside their windows at night. While many enjoy the sound, others complain they can’t sleep.

While the man-made and woman-made gusts and microbursts whip Washington, D.C., into chaos, the only disturbances here are at ...

An emerging strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza has spilled over from wild birds to dairy cows in the state of Nevada ...

“Once, in Texas, the US, when I was lying on the ground trying to photograph a hooded warbler, a small, bright yellow bird, another hooded warbler decided to rest on my back. The biannual ...

The Eastern Yellow Robin is a small, plump bird with a distinctive bright yellow underside and rump. Its upper parts are olive-grey, with a white throat and a dark grey tail. The bird has large, dark ...

Wilson’s warblers do not visit feeders, All About Birds reports, but if these tiny insectivores are out of luck in winter in ...

The Sri Lankan junglefowl (gallus lafayettii) is a beautiful bird that lives only in Sri Lanka. It’s special because it is ...