People participating in the "Great Backyard Bird Count" this weekend might spot black-capped chickadees, which are common in many Midwest and Great Plains states. The annual “Great Backyard Bird Count ...

Ask someone to name an orange bird, and they’re more than likely going to say an oriole. That, of course, would be a good ...

People participating in the "Great Backyard Bird Count" this weekend might spot black-capped chickadees, which are common in many Midwest and Great Plains states. Researchers want your help to learn ...

Rising spring temperatures and weather conditions will likely push hundreds of millions of birds northward this weekend — and bird lovers in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa will get a front-row ...

BIRD copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Nada Kramar Endowment Income Fund. In Endangered and Disappearing Birds of the Midwest, Matt Williams profiles forty of the most beautiful ...

Birds with red coloration get birders and non-birders alike excited. Most birds are rather drab, so orioles, warblers, and any bird with splotches of bright colors (orange or yellow or red or even ...

Introduction -- Surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata) -- Hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) -- Grater prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus cupido) -- Common loon (Gavia ...

Most of the 69 reported cases of bird flu in humans have been traced through dairy cows like these Iowa ones, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The nightmare scenario is, of ...