In this mural painted by Vanesa Álvarez Díaz, a Northern Waterthrush perches on a branch amid a selection of colorful native ...

About the Bird: The Blue-winged Warbler thrives in scrubby fields and thickets in the East, poking its bill into clumps of ...

In this mural painted by Pelumi Adegawa, a Gray Catbird peeks out from a garden shed, surrounded by a colorful display of ...

After an inspiring pigeon encounter with her son, a mother discovered a new appreciation for birds and the everyday wonders ...

From a gynandromorphic grosbeak to feathers collected at a murder investigation in Florida, biographer Chris Sweeney shares ...

Ken Abrahams has taken thousands of photos of birds. An amateur photographer with limited mobility, he sits on the beach near ...

Extreme temperatures add stress to already-fragile ecosystems. Here’s how you can help birds stay cool.

Native plants database Find Bird-Friendly Native Plants Whether you’re planting in your yard, on a windowsill, or in a public space, you can help create more bird-friendly habitats with native plants.

The eleven Empidonax flycatchers in North America are notorious for causing trouble for birders. All are small birds with wing-bars and eye-rings, and most are very hard to tell apart. The Least ...

Your Guide to Climate Action Feeling like you can’t make a difference? That couldn’t be further from the truth. Here’s where to begin and how to ­amplify your efforts to make lasting change in the ...

The big, foxy-red Brown Thrasher is a familiar bird over much of the east. Sometimes it forages boldly on open lawns; more often it scoots into dense cover at any disturbance, hiding among the briar ...

A large owl of the eastern, central, and, increasingly, northwestern United States, the Barred Owl is one of our more common owl species. As with most owls, the Barred is primarily nocturnal, but it ...