A rare seabird is recovering from a successful and life-saving surgery. A fisherman from Anconcito, Ecuador, found the ...

On a 2009 hike in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona, a group of birders heard an otherworldly, ethereal bird ...

Birds that end up far from home, like the New York common cuckoo, are known as “vagrants.” They’re fairly common during ...

The common cuckoo bird has only been spotted four times in U.S. history in the lower 48 states, experts say. Now, it's in ...

A new study investigates why some lost birds that stray far from their normal migratory routes end up thousands of miles off ...

The steppe grey shrike is a rare subspecies of the great grey shrike, which the BTO says visits UK heathlands in small ...

As fall migration for most birds comes to an end, we enter a period that birders call “rarity season.” This is when we often ...

The cuckoo, which has been spotted only four times in the mainland US, is native to Europe and winters in Africa.

It's the largest reported avian mortality event from a hailstorm in North America in decades, according to the Harte Research Institute.

A glossy ibis is spotted in the Haiwei National Wetland Park in Changjiang Li autonomous county, Hainan province, on Nov 5, ...

Biologist Bracken Brown couldn’t believe his eyes when he spotted the seemingly out-of-place bird soaring through the sky. “I ...