Raptors are on the move. Now is a great time to get out and see the birds of prey as they migrate south for the winter (click here for a list of 10 awesome places to watch the spectacle). Seeing the ...

One of South America’s least known and most threatened seabirds—frequently tangled in fishing nets and now facing warming ...

With their intense, feline gaze, barred bodies, and fierce hunting skills, the Great Horned Owl has been called the “tiger of ...

One of South America’s least known and most threatened seabirds—frequently tangled in fishing nets and now facing warming waters and deadly flu—is in accelerating collapse, but ...

A new analysis reveals that songbirds across the world mix and match the same whistles, trills, and other acoustic motifs to create their diverse tunes.

Until the 1970s, the Boat-tailed Grackle was considered to be the same species as the Great-tailed Grackle, but the two forms overlap on the coasts of Texas and Louisiana without interbreeding. The ...

Few birds have been associated with humans so closely as the Rock Pigeon, better known as the common city pigeon. It has been domesticated and taken around the world, raised for food, trained for ...

Fact-checked by Kenn Kaufman, field editor, Audubon magazine. Spotting a red bird in the wild can be both a delight and a surprise—I didn't know we had birds that looked like that! In fact, North ...

Birding is awe-inspiring. It connects us with a sense of place, and gets us outside to explore our neighborhoods and towns. It's also great for travel: One of my favorite things to do when I visit a ...

Last June, tourists and D.C. power players alike were charmed when a Red-tailed Hawk made a home for itself on the East Wing of the White House. But in fact birds and presidents have a long history ...

Brought in from Europe as an ornamental addition to parks and estates, the Mute Swan has become naturalized in some parts of North America, mainly in the northeast. Not really 'mute'; its voice is ...

Far above timberline in mountains of the west lives this elusive little ptarmigan, the smallest member of the grouse family in North America. While the other ptarmigan are strictly northern, the White ...