When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived ...

A new study underscores the importance of conservation for the region’s “Five Great Forests,” which support nearly half of ...

Birds, more than other animal groups, have had a horrific time with extinction, especially over the past several hundred years. Here’s one uniquely American example. The extinct heath hen (Tympanuchus ...

The American dipper is a songbird that prefers water to the skies! Learn what the bird looks like and where you're likely to ...

A Savi’s warbler (Locustella luscinioides) male sings at sunset. When a total solar eclipse plunged North America into darkness on the afternoon of April 8, 2024, the songbirds in Bloomington, Ind., ...

Along the long road from American icon to endangered species and back again, the bald eagle — the national bird of the United States, often seen against a clear blue sky — is having a moment. The ...

A newly published study has found that nearly 75% of bird species in North America are sharply declining across their ranges, and eight in 10 plummeting in the very areas where they’re thought to be ...

The first Friday of each month at 12:15 p.m. in the Mary Duke Biddle Room, the David M. Rubenstein Rare Books & Manuscripts Library turns to a new page in the bible of North American ornithology: “The ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms, and sent the price of eggs soaring in the United States since it was first detected in North America in late 2021. But what has been ...

Heard a chirp or spotted a flutter? These free apps identify backyard birds by sight or sound — no binoculars or in-depth ...