This week, birders around the world lost one beloved feathered creature from their birding life list. Fortunately, no species went extinct. Instead, this change resolved a long-held misunderstanding ...

Don’t take the birds in your backyard for granted. Beyond eating bugs or invasive plant seeds, backyard birds provide people with joy and wonder, said Geoff LeBaron, Christmas Bird Count director for ...

DEAR JOAN: Last weekend I spotted a white bird at our backyard bird feeder. All of the other birds at the feeder at the time were house finches. Other than color, the white bird looked the same as the ...

The vampire bat might be nature’s purest super-villain. But it’s not the only flyer known to subsist off of the blood of its prey. Here are four birds that also practice "hematophagy." Hematophagy is ...

In northern Argentina, one bird courts romance by snapping its wrists together, producing a sound scientists have puzzled ...