With just a few days left in 2024, the undisputed bird of the year for Cape Cod was found in Chatham. Well, I suppose that ...

He was looking at “a near fully leucistic red-tailed hawk.” Animals with leucism have reduced levels of melanin that often ...

The Jacksonville area has well over 200 species of birds. The number varies depending on the season, and many are found along ...

With the first real snowfall of the winter season arriving this week in the Treasure Valley, the raptors at the World Center ...

Hawk Hill, located in the Marin Headlands ... They have also developed featherless heads that allow them to push their beak into decaying flesh without getting any of it stuck in the head feathers.

Do not offer old, spoiled, or wet seed mixes to birds, as they can go rancid and grow mold that can produce toxins that are ...

One of life's little pleasures is to watch birds coming to the feeder in the winter. Frequent visitors to my feeder include cardinals, chickadees, tufted titmice, house finches, downy woodpeckers, ...

Winter’s season has pounced upon us, reminding us of who is in charge of the weather. Mother Nature has transformed the ...

Leaders of Mankato and Henderson area Christmas Bird Counts agree it’s too early to determine if avian influenza has begun to ...

A cardinal's seed-cracking beak. (Jim Williams ... Instead, they adopt the abandoned nests of red-tailed hawks, Cooper’s hawks, even old squirrel dreys to serve as a nest.