The Henry Pigott house on Portsmouth Island. Photo by Sara Hassatt By Peter Vankevich The Portsmouth Island Christmas Bird Count took place this year after having been canceled in 2023 and 2024 ...

It’s a good time to reflect on some of the remarkable new species that arrived in the New Forest during 2025.” ...

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

There were plenty of unusual records as 2026 got underway, including Red-flanked Bluetail in London and Corncrake in ...

For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer a reader question about the monk parakeets and grackles in Austin.

Ocracoke on the last day of 2025. Photo by Dennis McCunney By Peter Vankevich The birds of Ocracoke proved watcher-friendly for the annual Christmas Bird Count held on Dec. 31. For the second ...

Nature Notes is a weekly column provided by Gulf Coast Bird Observatory ...

Bird migration has long been embedded in the landscape of the borderland, with nearly 300 species of birds visiting here ...

Eight pairs of eyes scanned the desert brush through binoculars for signs of life. Without notice, a flash of bright yellow quickly materialized, seizing attention — and raising eyebrows. This ...

When I became serious about birding in the 1990s, I wasn’t thinking about milestone birds. Then they started creeping up. The first biggie was No. 500, a Varied Thrush in Evanston. And before that, my ...

Hampshire delivered an unexpected headline for the penultimate review of the year: the widely twitched Boat-tailed Grackle is in fact a Great-tailed Grackle! A faecal sample collected in early ...

This week’s featured creature may be one of the most commonly seen birds, as nearly every Walmart parking lot is populated with them. The great-tailed grackle is quite common, and you’ve almost ...