Thirty years after a US ornithologist first sighted a jocotoco antpitta, the foundation he set up to restore biodiversity is a model for conservation globally ...

"Two young white ibises flew into a small pond in Freeport, New York. It was exciting because these rare birds are uncommon in our area," says Birds & Blooms reader Kenneth Stevenson. "This brown ...

On a 2009 hike in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona, a group of birders heard an otherworldly, ethereal bird song floating, flute-like, through the canyon. The hikers identified the ...

Minutes after getting to a park in the middle of Phoenix, you can see flashes of green in the sky and hear chatter because love is in the air—or at least, the lovebirds are. The small parrots are ...

The UK’s rarest bird of prey has successfully bred in a secret location for a second consecutive year, with conservationists crediting one polyamorous male with bringing the species back from near ...

A bird that hasn’t stepped foot in Berks County in 125 years dropped into the Saucony Creek, setting off a rush of enthusiastic birders to the Richmond Township waterway. A juvenile wood stork, a bird ...

The BDN outdoors section brings readers into the woods, waters and wild places of Maine. It features stories on hunting, fishing, wildlife, conservation and recreation, told by people who live these ...

When a bird rarely seen on this continent showed up in Riverhead last month, the reaction was, as might be expected, a little cuckoo. Native to Eurasia, the bird is anything but common here: It ...

For the last two weeks, a little bird with big feet has turned a 320-acre marsh in Irvine into one of the hottest birding destinations in Southern California. Hundreds of birdwatchers have flocked to ...

As soon as the small blue bird with red breast feathers was spotted, the call went out to birders across the country.

A Blackpoll Warbler on Southeast Farallon Island in California is one example of the many birds that wind up as vagrants - well outside their normal range. A new study from the University of Illinois, ...