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 ...

Researchers at Spain's National Museum of Natural Sciences have discovered an unlikely health benefit for people with ...

A pigment that makes feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells.

Sometimes I catch myself classifying birds into two categories: fancy and regular. Shame on me. This is a bad attitude, because all birds are gorgeous little creatures. But I fear, after all these ...

My inherited home is where I learned to love watching birds. My mother’s simple feeders attracted amazing birds—the usual ...

Birds are some of nature’s most beautiful creatures — but a few of our feathered friends are truly bizarre — like these 25 ...

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 ...

On a windy spring day in Iowa, the American goldfinch frequently darts through the gray sky with a quick burst of yellow and ...

Primarily used to procure and eat food, bills are also used to probe mud, peck wood, tear flesh, sift water, pry seeds, build ...

North America is home to 17 species of finches. Two of them live year-round in the Times News region: the American goldfinch ...

The recent halting of the Forest Service’s massive deforestation and road-building project bordering Yellowstone National Park benefitted far more than ...

A pair of scientific papers has identified the same single gene as the source of red colouring in birds. The gene makes an enzyme that lets the birds convert yellow pigments, which they eat, into red ...