It’s easy to lump all sparrow bird types together: “Yep, looks like a sparrow to me.” You can find at least 33 species of native sparrows across the country. And while their plumage won’t sweep you ...

The type of seed that attracts the widest variety of birds to your feeders is sunflower seed, according to Cornell’s ...

Black oil sunflower seed is the best option for attracting a wide variety of bird species to your feeders. Hulled sunflower kernels are convenient but more expensive and require careful handling to ...

“Awkward” would probably be the most benevolent word I could use to describe the explosive launch into flight of the California quail. Certainly, the words graceful or athletic do not come to mind. A ...

The animal kingdom gives us rainbows of color with butterflies and chameleons, and clownfish, but birds give us just as much of a show. Among the peacock, the toucan, and the macaw, there’s a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The last Backyard Bird Count found that 52 ...

Have hummingbird populations declined in the Tri-State? What about robins? Or the elusive wood thrush? While we may think we have a general sense about a given bird species’ population status, now we ...

In the depths of the Amazon rainforest, a strange song drew scientists to a new species of bird, the first of its kind ...

Q. I saw a photo of different kinds of bird eggs and noted not only the obvious, that smaller birds lay smaller eggs, but also that some bird eggs are elongate whereas others are more rounded. What is ...

“Awkward” would probably be the most benevolent word I could use to describe the explosive launch into flight of the California quail. Certainly, the words graceful or athletic do not come to mind. A ...