The lights in the auditorium darken. The cacophony of voices subsides. The enormous screen comes to life, displaying a ...

Mr. Yong is a science writer whose most recent book, “An Immense World,” investigates animal perception. Last September, I drove to a protected wetland near my home in Oakland, Calif., walked to the ...

I never expected that an app for identifying birds would help me with mindfulness more than my meditation apps.

Other than cars, the thing I hear most often at home is birds. I live in Southern California, in a relatively suburban neighborhood, outside of an even more metropolitan downtown. I don’t get the ...

In July 1992, two Danish birders visiting Patagonia, Arizona reported the first-ever, mega-rare cinnamon hummingbird in the United States. Back then, reporting rare birds required phoning in ...

Birds are a significant part of the wildlife in the ecosystems of Eagle County and around the world. eBird data shows that there have been 290 bird species recorded in Eagle County. The mission of the ...

Next to insects, birds sadly seem to get short shrift from humans. We remain powerfully drawn to scenes of lions hunting in the Kalahari desert or rhinos jousting in eastern India, but remain mostly ...