Keying off the mesmerizing New York story of two red-tailed hawks in love, living and struggling on Fifth Avenue, the play Pecking Order has some excellent elements, but ultimately disappoints.

As more and more "historical" checklists are added to the platform, birds we've lost now mingle with those still hanging on.

Nuts are a high-calorie source of healthy fat that not only keep birds' skin and feathers healthy but also provide them ...

The American dipper, a drab-looking bird no larger than a robin, is a splashy rarity: a songbird that swims and even walks underwater. This round-bodied gray bird with short wings and a stubby tail is ...

It’s nesting season again. For something so basic and so essential to avian life, I believe that the act of nesting is misunderstood by many. Let’s go over some very basic stuff and ...

This is a great time of year to see birds’ nests. A search for bird nests is like an archaeological dig, without the ground and without the dig. Shrubs and trees are naked, allowing an open ...

Lawmakers considered the goldfinch. Kids liked the scarlet tanager best. The whole thing took more than three decades.

Tami Gingrich can't think of a better way to quell the winter blues than to participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count, set ...

One defense strategy that birds might employ involves draping their nests with snake skin. This tactic helps keep predators away, […] ...

Gracie and George, the stars of Hilton Head Island Land Trust’s eagle cam, await the hatching of their eaglets.

It held together as snow built up inside the bowl, and we often saw chickadees “bathing” in the snow-bowl, much as birds in ...

A recent study published in Urban Ecosystems by Dorothy Zahor and Kenneth Glynn, then graduate students at EMU (they have since both moved to Oregon State for Ph.D studies), demonstrated American ...