Many years ago, in the blackness of nighttime in the country, I saw an apparition. It was a large, white-winged specter hovering by the hedgerow some 6 feet in the air. Naturally, I took it to be an ...

A hummingbird’s heart beats over 1,200 times per minute, while the great egret hunts with precision unmatched in shallow ...

Learn what a barred owl looks like and what their call sounds like. Plus learn where you can spot these large owls in North ...

The title of the world's most beautiful bird is often given to the Resplendent Quetzal, native to Central America. Learn why ...

A suite of birds resides year-round on the Arctic tundra or on the taiga, the habitat of sparse trees just south of the treeless tundra. These birds include great gray owls, snowy owls and common ...

This year is being called one of the most unprecedented snowy owl invasions of all time. Since Nov. 16, when the first snowy owl was spotted in Kansas, more than 80 sightings of the birds have been ...

A snowy owl was spotted swooping into Shirley Chisholm State Park over the holiday weekend — marking its first appearance in the Big Apple in years. The rare sighting drove hordes of curious ...

A new global study finds that the visual beauty of birds—their colors and shapes—predicts which wild species are traded by ...

I really shouldn’t say “our” barn owls. They belong to no one. But it’s hard not to feel some pride for the new residents of the owl box we hung expectantly on a jacaranda tree five long years ago. We ...

A suite of birds resides year-round on the Arctic tundra or on the taiga, the habitat of sparse trees just south of the treeless tundra. These birds include great gray owls, snowy owls and common ...