Research indicates that more than 1 billion birds may be killed per year in the U.S. alone due to window collisions. Birds hit buildings at all hours during the day and night. At night migrating birds ...

Of all the creatures on Earth, only two can produce human language: humans…and birds. Of the few birds that can imitate human speech, including mynah birds, crows, and ravens, parrots are clearly the ...

The male American Goldfinch, dressed in sunny yellow, brightens every feeder he visits during the spring and summer months.

One of the most widespread and abundant songbirds in the world today, the House Sparrow has a simple success formula: it associates with humans. Native to Eurasia and northern Africa, it has succeeded ...

“A place that is good for birds is good for everyone,” writes naturalist and author Scott Weidensaul in The Return of the ...

After a layoff, a veteran editor found reprieve from an AI-obsessed job market in the steady presence of the Mourning Doves, ...

Scientists have developed a fecal-sampling method that can help identify illegally captured wild birds in Latin America that ...

A big boreal finch, uncommon but widespread in spruce and fir forests of the North and the high mountains. It is often absurdly tame, allowing very close approach; ironically, this sometimes makes it ...

This rather plain and pale little sparrow is a typical summer bird of the northern prairies, where the males perch in the tops of low thickets to sing their flat, monotonous buzzes. It is sometimes a ...

A rather mysterious owl of dense northern woodlands. Except when calling at night in very early spring, it is easily overlooked. Until the 1970s it was not known to breed anywhere south of Canada; ...

At first glance, the two species of yellowlegs look identical except for size, as if they were put on earth only to confuse birdwatchers. With better acquaintance, they turn out to have different ...

A strikingly patterned warbler of leafy second growth and swamp edges. Once common in the northeast, the Golden-winged Warbler has been declining recently in southern parts of its breeding range. As ...