It's rare enough to catch sight of birds-of-paradise. These cute birds are continuing to amaze with a unique finding that may ...

A “routine” wildlife survey at a nature reserve in the United Arab Emirates took a turn when a staff member looked up at a tree — and found a “rare” visitor staring back. The brief encounter was the ...

Despite their luminescent glow, lightning bugs have remained a conservation mystery until relatively recently. Now ...

I woke up before 4 a.m. and got right out of bed. I wasn't sick and I wasn't giving up on any more shut eye after one of those inexplicable nights of tossing and turning. I did it in the name of ...

A red-capped manakin will moonwalk better than Michael Jackson in a lek of others when it wants to attract a female mate.

Tucson Bird Alliance and volunteers have counted the stunning birds each spring in their only U.S. breeding stronghold.

Walking through a dark misty forest in Madagascar, a team of scientists followed a “distinct” chirping sound to its “secretive” source. The calling creature had “large” hands and “long” legs. It ...

Red-winged blackbirds vexed me when I first started birding. Not the males. They’re easy. They have that sleek all-black ...

Nothing lifts a garden’s mood quite like the burst of bright yellow blooms—even when the skies are gray. Yellow flowering ...

In the last column, I wrote about birders "chasing a bird," which means going out of our way to see a rare or unusual bird. I ...

Although we didn’t have snow on Saturday May 10 th, the cool spring and strong north winds were quite unpleasant to lakeside bird groups on the annual Mason County Migration ...

A new atlas catalogs nearly 11,000 bird names, revealing their origins, meanings, and the surprising stories behind how birds ...