Even if you don't know a chicken from a chickadee, you can help with the international Great Backyard Bird Count.

Researchers and volunteers in Texas documented birds of different species preening one another. Experts say the behavior may be more common than documented.

Many semipalmated plovers and dunlins ran along the sand while sanderlings darted in and out of the water. Herons, egrets and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's easy to see why so many people love birdwatching. There are so many species to learn about with different personalities and ...

While other species have elegant, descriptive, diagnostic or geographic modifiers, all of these birds are simply known as "common." That's common eider, common merganser, common tern, common nighthawk ...

Most birds spend hours, days, or even weeks painstakingly building their nests. Some birds make nests out of mud, some build nests in trees, and some birds nest on the ground and simply scrape out a ...

The four most numerous bird species in the world as listed by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) — house sparrow, barn swallow, European starling and ring-billed gull — are found in Minnesota in ...

Across New York state, from the skyscrapers in NYC, to the high peaks in the Adirondacks to Niagara Falls, bird enthusiasts say the American Goldfinch is the most sighted bird in the state. According ...

Discover the best conditions for our feathered friends and you'll have a yard alive with birdsong and beauty ...