Weight: Between 5.5 and 17 pounds Physical traits: Mostly dark-brown birds with impressive ... But the way this particular ...

When it comes to birds with white heads, black-tailed gulls are quite easy to recognize. They have white bodies, wings that ...

Outer pairs of tail feathers extensively rufous on inner webs; dark shaft stripes and rufous extend to feather tips. Bill proportionately long, heavy, and black. Mouth lining typically flesh-colored.

Dark morph: adult has an all-dark body with dark wing coverts and silvery flight feathers ... giving the bird a dark bib. Juvenile: brown above like adult, but with pale superciliary line on ...

A bird making a nest. Taryn Elliott The nests and eggs of birds have fascinated us for hundreds of years. At its simplest the ...

Adults have a long, pointed tail and legs with feathers to the toes. Adult males have a yellow patch over the eye, are grayish on top with a white breast, a dark brown throat and a black belly ...

Crows, jays, ravens, magpies and their various other relatives (nutcrackers, choughs, jackdaws, etc.) belong to the taxonomic ...

Merlin, a North American falcon species, was once threatened nationwide. Yet recently, the Adirondacks have proven a ...

The bald eagle is one of the most iconic birds in North America. Known for its striking white head and tail contrasting ...

All of the regular dinner diners were in attendance, but I started to hear some familiar chip notes from the branches of the ...

The world we live in is rich in many resources, and perhaps one of the countless treasures of nature is the exact hue of bird ...

I realize that I wrote a column on the yellow-rumped warbler just last week, but I had an encounter with this species that ...