The osprey is in decline in one of its key territories and some scientists blame overfishing of menhaden, an important food for the birds ...

The serviceberry tree is a spindly, multi-trunked beauty that produces blueberry-sized red fruit. The fruit attracts robins and wrens, sparrows, goldfinches, cardinals and a host of other hungry fauna ...

A catbird was skulking around the forsythia in my backyard this morning, but she was stealthy enough to keep their nest a ...

One bird spectacle readily observable in Allegheny County right now comes in the form of 100 purple martins swirling above ...

"All whooping cranes today are descended from only 14 adults remaining on the Texas coast in 1941", he added. Thanks to decades of legal protection, habitat restoration and cross-border collaboration, ...

Birds with “house” built into their names are, not surprisingly, common urban residents. Three such birds found in Minnesota include the house wren, house finch and house sparrow. Here’s a quick bio ...

A catbird was skulking around the forsythia in my backyard this morning, but she was stealthy enough to keep their nest a ...

As I write this column the sun is just coming up over Spread Eagle Mountain in Keene Valley. Astronomically speaking, it is just past summer solstice time, so sunrise comes early. I am bleary still ...

The nestling, which fell from its nest before it could fly, is the latest charge at Great Lakes Pigeon Rescue — where ...

New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

The team is "here to stay," no matter what, lead researcher Keith Bowers said, amid federal funding changes for scientific ...

The wren, meanwhile, continued his rounds, moving from nest box to nest box, laying claim to them all. A female wren, if one ...