Every wild bird is a feathered enigma, its individual mystery contributing much to their kind's communal magic. Any wildfowler holding a taken bird - a duck, goose, mourning dove or other game bird ...

There are few things as exciting to waterfowlers as harvesting a banded bird. Shooting a banded bird a rare occurrence, and provides an everlasting memento of that hunt, which makes a great ...

A pigeon that Australia declared a biosecurity risk has received a reprieve after a U.S. bird organization declared its identifying leg band was fake. The band suggested the bird found in a Melbourne ...

Wonder about the difference between a grackle and a starling? Do colorful warblers catch your fancy? What gave the Cooper's hawk its name? Ask The Bird Lady. Laura Erickson is the science editor at ...

If you saw a finch one time, chances are you'd have great difficulty picking it out from a large group of finches later on. A new artificial intelligence-based system can do just that, though, ...

Joe the pigeon is off the hook in Australia. It turns out the bird — which had been declared a biosecurity risk after officials believed it had arrived from the US — was wearing a fake leg band, ...

CANBERRA, Australia — A pigeon that Australia declared a biosecurity risk may get a reprieve after a U.S. bird organization declared its identifying leg band was fake. The band suggested the bird ...

The hummingbird Susan Heath is banding weighs 3.06 grams—an amount, I will learn, when she places a bird on my open palm, is too light for a human hand to even feel. Ten minutes earlier, the bird flew ...