Yellow-collared Chlorophonia (Chlorophonia flavirostris) This tiny and colorful bird formerly of the Thraupidae (Tanager) family now has its own family the Fingillidae and it...

“The young ones are incredibly curious and playful,” says Monte Merrick, the co-Director of Bird Ally X in Arcata, California, which is almost to...

The League of Conservation Voters released its scorecard on the members of the 112th Congress of the United States and it is a very...

I’m glad that February is the shortest month because it also ranks as one of the most boring, at least from a phenological perspective....

People get frustrated with European Starlings in North America, they are non native and they can snarf up food quickly at the feeders. One...

Growing up in Britain gives Pied Avocets something of a air of royalty, birdwise. They are, after all, the symbol of the RSPB, a...

Thanks to the proliferation of digital photography and propagation of social media sharing, those of us interested in birds are awash in a daily...

In India, everything takes about three times longer than you expect it to.  On the first full day we had in Kutch, the largest...