If you love the sight of hummingbirds darting through your garden, planting the right flowers can turn your yard into a ...

With threats of avian flu and lead poisoning, biologists are working overtime to care for a species that nearly went extinct.

Bird Mimicry Bird that mimic other birds are the cover artists of the bird world, borrowing sounds and tunes from other birds to use as their own. Some mimicry bird species—mockingbirds, thrashers and ...

Nests are not just found in trees, the city reminded residents. Many birds nest in shrubs, ground vegetation, gravel, stream banks and a variety of human-made structures. If a bird is observed ...

Even in Los Angeles, a city dissected by highways and freeways and with busy ports and train lines, there are still places ...

It seems like merely a fact of life on the West Coast that summers are dry. But compared to most of the rest of the country ...

and then developed red eyes ‒ the most common of their symptoms. By contrast, someone who came into contact with a backyard chicken or wild bird might have inhaled the virus and therefore become ...

“For nearly 250 years, we called the bald eagle the national bird when it wasn’t,” said Jack Davis, co-chair of the National ...