Here’s a look at these easygoing birds of North America and the qualities that make them so abundant. Check out 15 backyard birds you should know. Male red-wings, flashing their scarlet shoulder ...

During a Dec. 28 trip to their favorite park in Sturgeon Bay, Candy and Rush Evans spotted a species of bird rarely found in ...

But when you’re on as solid a run as the theater has been of late, you can afford to be generous and put on a show like Birds of North America, one that puts a man at its center and then lets a ...

One of the smallest owls in North America, the northern saw-whet lives among us and is rarely seen—but one volunteer science ...

When you look out your window this weekend, chances are you will see birds but have you ever wondered how many feathered ...

Most standards use large (1.8 kg) and medium (1.1 kg) birds as benchmarks (the empennage and certain large turbofan engines use a 3.6-kg bird). There are 20 large (≥1.8 kg) and 16 medium (1.1–1.7 kg) ...

These beautiful birds are North America's most common hawks. They are found all over the continent, in Central America, and in the West Indies. The first of these hawks to be scientifically ...

North America has lost more than a quarter of its birds since 1970 Bird populations in Asia and the US are "in crisis", according to two major studies. The first concludes there are three billion ...

Ravens are specialized feeders on the carcasses of large mammals such as moose during the harsh winter months of North America. The birds roost together at night on a tree, arriving noisily from ...

Widespread and abundant in much of North America, the introduced European starling ... but fresh fall adults look very different from summer birds. On freshly molted birds, black plumage has ...

The program is overseen nationally by Birds Canada and the results help to underpin some major reports about Canada's bird ...

Ptarmigan are extremely hard to see in our white winters. I like to imagine seeing them in the snow living happily with fewer ...