Although 24 hummingbird species have been recorded in the United States, the Ruby-throated is the only one that breeds east ...

Leave it to beavers . . . to fix the environment for us. Eager: The Suprising, Secret Life of Beavers, by Ben Goldfarb, Chelsea Green Publishing, 304 pages, $24.95. Buy it online at Chelsea Green.

At 29, Iris the Osprey has outlived the odds to become a cherished internet star whose brood of offspring is helping track ...

One thing I can pretty much promise: hummingbird photography never gets old. After more than 600,000 images, I am still enchanted, challenged, excited, and, at times, disappointed. I learn something ...

Update: The Alabama yellow cardinal has shacked up with a red female cardinal in the yard where it was originally spotted. After raising at least one chick, the couple now seems to be nesting again.

The iridescent ruby-red throat of an Anna’s Hummingbird, the stunningly bright blues and yellows of the (aptly-named) Blue-and-yellow Macaw . . . admit it, you get color envy every time you see a ...

The Swinhoe’s White-eye—a small yellow bird native to Asia—has rapidly spread throughout the state and beyond in the past ...

Jim Rivers squints out into the moonlit water, bracing against the Pacific Storm’s deck as she rolls over the swells. In the distance, the lights of the coastal town of Waldport, Oregon, glitter.

For birders, researchers, and conservationists alike, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird platform has been a game changer. Not only can its crowdsourced data help you locate rare birds and ...

For most of the year, the Willow Ptarmigan lays low on the Arctic tundra, blending into the snowy landscape with its powder-white plumage. But as winter turns toward spring, the males begin to stake ...

It is a truth (nearly) universally acknowledged that birds exist. It is a truth somewhat less universally acknowledged that a portion of them are “birbs”: a somewhat ambiguous online avian ...

In the wine-dark expanse of the Aegean Sea, far from the halls of civilization, there was once a small island—or so Homer, the famed poet of Ancient Greece, wrote in his epic The Odyssey. No buildings ...