The sunny yellow-hued American goldfinch, which has a black forehead marking, can be seen all over the states. For a real ...

The formally feathered, flightless aquatic birds known as penguins dominate the frigid waters surrounding the subantarctic ...

Get facts about the red-winged blackbird, a black bird with red and yellow wings that is a sign of spring. Learn about their ...

Just 10 miles off the northern tip of mainland Scotland, Orkney is an archipelago of 70 islands, rich in Neolithic relics and ...

From their October arrival to their dawn feeding habits, dark-eyed juncos are the dependable “snowbirds” that quietly define ...

Researchers at Spain's National Museum of Natural Sciences have discovered an unlikely health benefit for people with naturally red hair.

Wondering about the most dangerous birds on Earth? We've compiled this list of the Top 20 scariest birds — some that have ...

But where you live determines more than just whether you see juncos year-round or seasonally; it also determines what type of ...

While many of our region’s colorful birds fly south for the cold months, resident woodpeckers offer a reliable contrast to ...

In February, during a hike in two feet of snow along the Appalachian Trail in Cat Rocks near Pawling, N.Y., a flock of golden-crowned kinglets serenaded them when they stopped under the evergreens for ...

A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude, from the nanoscale to the meter ...

If you’re out in the field this week, looking for your next lifer, you might be foolish — but dedicated. A dedicated fool.