Birds are some of the most colorful animals on Earth, with a palette of rainbow tones to feast your eyes on. Here are our picks for some of our most flamboyant feathered friends. When you purchase ...

This is the second column on the words used to name the 4,600 or so species of birds in the Western Hemisphere. As I pointed out in Part I, some color names are used often while others are rare. In ...

The Monomet Conservation Sciences has released its 2025 State of the Birds report. The report reveals accelerating declines in bird populations across the continent of North America. These declines ...

Colorful woodpeckers in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in Siskiyou County will soon have a new name. Matt Witt While hiking in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in Siskiyou County near ...

My wife and I just returned from a week of birding in Jamaica, where we saw all sorts of spectacular birds, from exquisite streamertail hummingbirds to potoos, a nocturnal creature straight out of J.K ...

I’m not sure how it's possible for summer days to feel endless yet so limited and finite. We have gone entirely through June and midway through July! From a birding and photography standpoint, June ...

The name Aya has many different meanings, all over the world. However, if you look at the Hebrew meaning, Aya is a name linked to the “honey buzzard” and birds in general. (And if you’re wondering: it ...

This October, a Mandarin duck became one of New York’s biggest celebrities, as locals and tourists flocked to Central Park to spot the brightly colored fowl. One enterprising New Yorker even went so ...