The ring-necked pheasant, an introduced species that has declined from its peak population in Pennsylvania in the 1970s to only a couple heavily managed pockets today, is one of the few birds that ...

Slowly driving down the three miles of gravel road that twists and turns from our quiet cabin in the woods to the commotion of a series of paved and noisy roads that we’d be bound to for the next 500 ...

For a reddish-beaked bird called the zebra finch, sexiness is color-coded. Males have beaks that range from light orange to dark red. But to females, a male's colored bill may simply be hot, or not, ...

If you have a bird feeder in the continental United States, you have almost certainly been visited by house finches. On both sides of the Mississippi their hungry flocks coat feeders like displays of ...

If you have backyard bird feeders, you might want to be on the lookout for some new visitors this season. This is the time of year when longtime Michigan birdwatchers hope to catch a glimpse of the so ...

After walking the grounds of the Morton Arboretum for hours on a December morning, John Leonard and fellow birders were preparing to go to lunch when they encountered a rare sight: a flock of 17 red ...