Summer in Minnesota shines bright for birdwatchers, with colorful visitors like a Green Heron and Hairy Woodpecker bringing joy to backyard patios and ponds throughout the warm afternoons.

The best US states for bird watching can help you take your love for birding up a notch or two. Home to more than 245 species ...

Fourteen thousand five hundred pounds of bird poop is a lot of bird poop," said Joe Nunez, a resident right on the water.

Minnesota swings from one temperature extreme to another, but while that may be disagreeable to humans it’s just fine with birds. The state’s combination of habitats—wetlands, prairie, and mixed ...

On May 2, a male yellow-headed blackbird turned up at the backyard bird feeder of Denise Martin of St. Joseph. Yellow-headed blackbirds are common west of the Great Lakes, north to Alberta and ...

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

Participants in the 2025 Great Backyard Bird Count recorded 8,131 species of birds and submitted about 325,000 checklists, both records in the event.

In rapid succession, pitch-perfect imitations of red-headed and red-bellied woodpeckers, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, northern flickers, gray tree frogs, red-tailed hawks, killdeer and house finches ...

The possession of feathers and other parts of native North American birds without a permit is banned by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, officials say.

Michigan officials announced a second bird flu outbreak in Ingham County backyard flocks, but details about the birds and location are limited.

A recent bird flu outbreak among eared grebes in Utah killed between 15,000 and 25,000 birds near Great Salt Lake, state wildlife officials said in early February.

WASHINGTON — Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms, and sent the price of eggs soaring in the United States since it was first detected in North America in late 2021. But what has been ...