Learn what a yellow-headed blackbird looks like and where to find this bird. Also discover facts about their sounds, nests, ...

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

Great Black-backed Gull . The plumage of juvenile and immature great black-backed gulls initially has a complex pattern of ...

In this Bird of the Week segment, Stacia Brezinski with the Maine Audubon tells us all about the herring gull.

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 ...

The yellow-billed cuckoo has remained somewhat of a mystery even to scientists, Rhodes told AL.com. Because they are so ...

In late June and early July, groups of yellow-crowned night herons will begin to leave their New Orleans nests. First they ...

But some birds are total badasses—they swoop down, talons ready, and take on one of nature’s most feared creatures: snakes.

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

Cormorants are mainly black with yellow-orange coloring around their faces and bills. Depending on the species, cormorants typically weigh between 1 and 11 pounds and have a wingspan of 2 to 3 feet.

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 ...

With about 600 different species of bees in Washington, you would think it would be easy to spot one. But that black and yellow insect you see quickly darting from flower to flower could just as easil ...