Despite its tiny stature, the smallest bird native to North America can survive cold nights in the Rocky Mountains, and some ...

Ralph Sheppard is an ecologist living in Donegal, where he has been monitoring the birds since the 1950s. This is an extract ...

Migratory birds are some of nature’s most efficient travelers, able to cross oceans and continents in a matter of days or ...

New research suggests long-billed curlews keep an ear out for warnings from prairie dogs in order to hide from predators and protect their nests ...

Learn what an adult and juvenile black-crowned night-heron looks like. Plus, find out where you can see one of these wading birds.

A slaty-backed gull collapses after stumbling in Shunkunitai in the city of Nemuro, Hokkaido, March 18, 2025, in this photo provided by the Wild Bird Society of Japan, a public interest ...

Over the years rare birds calling Dorset their temporary home have had people flocking to different parts of the county to catch a glimpse. Very recently a hoopoe at Weston, Portland, drew a large ...

George Divoky has returned to the rugged conditions of Alaska’s coastline every year since 1972 to collect data on a dwindling Black Guillemot colony. His patient observations of the arctic seabird’s ...

Almost two thirds of Scotland’s seabird species have declined over the past 20 years, with eight, including the Arctic tern, kittiwake and black-headed gull dropping in numbers by more than 50 ...

A black guillemot flies with a fish in its beak on Cooper Island. Black guillemots prefer to eat small cod, but when the sea ice is too far offshore, the birds are forced to hunt for sculpin ...

In addition, ‘bird flu’ (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza or HPAI) has caused population declines in several seabird species. A study published in the journal British Birds sees the addition of Leach ...

Bird Watch: Sightings from ... Black Scoter, Rock Pigeon, Ruby-throated ... Semipalmated Sandpiper, Long-tailed Jaeger, Pomarine Jaeger, South Polar Skua, Jaeger species, Black Guillemot ...