A: I’m not surprised you were amazed by a scarlet tanager, one of the most brilliant birds in the forest. Where cardinals are a bright red, male scarlet tanagers are a red-hot, almost electric ...

Unlike birds whose plumage is mostly blue, the green coloring of a green bird‘s feathers is the result of pigment, not a trick of the light. These birds’ emerald green, lime green, chartreuse, or ...

It was 3 in the morning when Lorenzo Mora, 41, was getting ready to go bird-watching. This wasn’t just any birding trip: he’d ...

I hasten to add, for those who remember a certain former governor of South Carolina, that this is not a euphemism. My brother ...

Birds that nest in the area include Wood Duck, American Kestrel, Willow Flycatcher, Cliff ... Acadian Flycatcher, Yellow-throated Vireo, Gray Catbird, Cedar Waxwing, Black-and-white Warbler, ...

Unless you’ve been to the Upper Cape and parts of the Mid Cape over the last week or so, it may be hard to imagine the ...

The birds barely stood still, but we spotted Yellow-rumped and Wilson’s Warblers and Western Tanagers. They were working fast, looking for insects to fuel their migratory journey. Ash-throated ...

One species that has recently become regular in many neighbourhoods and gardens is the house wren. This species began colonizing the Sunshine Coast in the late ‘90s and only became common in the last ...

With its bright golden mantle and jet-black body, it would be hard to mistake the yellow-headed blackbird for any other species.

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

The Cheyenne Big Day is all about counting as many species of birds as we can in one calendar day. The Cheyenne High Plains ...