From fiery scarlet to subtle amber, these birds often flaunt this color for reasons beyond just looking pretty, many rely on ...

A brightly colored bill can be one of the best clues when identifying birds, and red-beaked species are some of the most ...

FREEPORT, Maine — The American Birding Association has named its 2025 bird of the year, and it's a bird Mainers are quite familiar with. This year's winner is the common loon. "Loons are big, they're ...

MINNESOTA, USA — "Imagine now, a clear summer evening in the north woods. Above you, the bands of the Milky Way framed by the dark spindly boughs of spruce and fir. And cutting though the ...

Q: The amount of effort that goes into a Christmas Bird Count varies quite a bit across years and count circles. How do you deal with this issue when you calculate abundance trends? How do you know ...

A male Paradisaea rubra, or red bird-of-paradise.Credit...Rene Martin/American Museum of Natural ... that all of these animals descended from a common ancestor that had evolved biofluorescent ...

Here's how pioneering women ornithologists, from Florence Merriam Bailey to Helen Hays, revolutionized the study of avian ...

They also have a life span of between 40 to 60 years — one of the longest for birds. American Flamingos are the only species of flamingo found in North America, and they like to hang out in the ...

Recent sightings (through Feb. 11) as reported to Mass Audubon. The spotted towhee continued at the Provincetown Airport. In an interview with the Globe, Kate Walsh, the state secretary of health and ...