A flash of orange-yellow was all it took for me to declare, “Bullock’s oriole!” Sure enough, once we got the binoculars on ...

Northern cardinals, blue jays, American robins, and house sparrows are common birds throughout city life. These small, ...

There are thousands of species of birds, and many of their names are well-known to us—blue jay, robin, and mallard, to name ...

Unlike birds whose plumage is mostly blue, the green coloring of a green bird‘s feathers is the result of pigment, not a ...

Utahraptor – a feathered, agile, bird-like apex predator. Dromaeosaurs, or more popularly, raptors, are easily some of the ...

The least tern is a small-but-mighty shorebird that nests along the Gulf Coast in Alabama. It's featured as part of the ...

Take the cormorant in this YouTube video, for example: it somehow manages to gulp down a fish that’s bigger than its entire head! Cormorants are mainly black with yellow-orange coloring around ...

We all know that India’s national bird is peacock. But, did you know that the different states have their special birds as well, known as state birds. Here are some of them ...

From more than a few yards they are, as their very name suggests, black-headed gulls ... out one particular bird and pursued it at length, at moments no more than a foot behind. The chase went on for ...

A rare bird has been spotted along Irish coasts this week, as the African Hoppoe makes its northward migration. Birdwatchers have recorded multiple sightings of up to 80 of the colourful birds over ...

American Kestrel: Note pale underside with orangey chest, black spots on belly two black “sideburns” on head, and blue upperwing coverts, orange ... stocky wings and body, long slim tail that is short ...