It's always fun to watch birds perched on your backyard trees or feeding stations. And if they happen to be a rare sight in your area? You could easily spend a few hours looking up their ID, logging ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Birds flying in the air at sundown - Oleh_slobodeniuk/Getty Images There are many common birds you don't want to spot flying ...

Eastern birdwatchers received a special treat when a rare visitor was spotted earlier this month. According to the Pennsylvania Game Commission, a varied thrush typically only found along the West ...

BRAINERD — For a brief period each spring, colorful songbirds gather. Some are migrating — en route northward — while others are busy staking out nesting territories. The males, of course, are singing ...

If you want to create a haven for bright and colorful birds to roam your yard, you may want to start incorporating bright purple flowers to draw them in further. Unlike humans, birds have four color ...

Even though Rhode Island is the smallest state in the country, it has a lot of different habitats, from woods to wetlands, to beaches, to urban and suburban areas. This means the state supports a ...

When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived in my region were nowhere to be found. Some, like the passenger pigeon, ...

The sudden burst of rare sightings has drawn attention and speculation. Are more rare birds actually arriving in Texas, or are people just getting better at spotting them? "The answer is a little ...

There are many common birds you don't want to spot flying anywhere near your yard, but one in particular is the ring-necked pheasant. A ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) can cause plenty of ...