Male red-wings, flashing their scarlet shoulder patches, are a familiar sight all over North America. While some marsh birds have become rare, red-wings don’t need pristine marshes.

Throughout North America, those of us engaged in avian conservation were shocked by the numbers and their implications. These were not just populations of rare and endangered birds being studied.

These birds, which sound like a ... With vibrant colors that stand out against the green tree canopy, summer tanagers are the only completely red birds in all of North America, according to ...

The red knot, a shoreline bird with range reaching from the Arctic to the Delaware Bay, will be among the North American migratory birds on display in the National Zoo's new bird house in 2021 ...

Just 12 bird families represented 90% of the disappeared bird species examined (Figure 3A), including many of North America’s most familiar birds such as sparrows, warblers, finches and swallows.

Why Yellow Birds Mysteriously Turn Red. No one could figure out why a North American woodpecker's feathers were changing color—until now.

Sharon Kennedy, of Lincoln, Neb., looks for birds while on a grassland birds tour, Tuesday, June 20, 2023, in Denton, Neb. North America’s grassland birds are deeply in trouble 50 years after ...

Since last week, 16 species of North American land birds have been spotted in Britain and Ireland, including several species of warblers, one northern parula, 10 cliff swallows and three Baltimore ...