The increasingly popular gadgets, which take photos of avian visitors, are turning at-home birding into a shared experience.

A Greater Roadrunner zoomed into view and hopped atop one of the tee boxes to survey its surroundings. I focused my binoculars to get a better look at the bird, a lifer for me, and that’s when I ...

The Bald Eagle’s undeniable majesty has earned it longtime status as the mascot of the United States, but the bird also has some surprisingly quirky traits, like its dicey aerial courtship routine or ...

A new push for more oil and gas drilling, mining, and logging threatens irreparable damage to irreplaceable habitats.

Sia stores hundreds of thousands of feathers from more than 200 species in a warehouse offsite. Rehab groups, zoos, and falconers help maintain the supply. Sia fulfills requests from around 150 tribes ...

After these incredible fliers come thousands of miles to the boreal forest to breed, they rush out and head south again several weeks later. As if breeding, raising chicks, and fattening up for ...

Over 12,000 new plugs have gone into the ground this year, either in areas that weren’t already planted or where there is a good amount of bare ground. This adds up to a total of 177,000 native shrubs ...

Although adult trogons also eat fruit, “the chicks need insects,” MacFarland says. “And they have to be large insects, like walking sticks, katydids, large grasshoppers, cicadas. If we’re having a ...

A juvenile Bald Eagle soars high above Lowell Young on a sunny day in Yosemite National Park. The sight fills the former longtime president of Yosemite Area Audubon Society with admiration as he peers ...

As Short-eared Owls are nomadic and often don’t return to the same nesting sites, Project WAfLS provided a valuable baseline for how the birds are faring. Miller has observed low population years in ...

It wasn’t the seabird carcasses that were unusual. Birds that die at sea frequently wash ashore. On regular surveys to tally bodies from Alaska to Central California, for example, volunteer data ...