Seraphine, you’re on the right track. The Legislature named the common loon as Minnesota’s state bird in 1961 in large part because it’s so distinctive, with its white-spangled black plumage ...

The U.S. bird population is declining at an alarming rate, according to a report published Thursday by an alliance of science ...

Spring draws hundreds of millions of birds north after winter shooed them away. Here are some of the species traveling to or ...

What they didn’t know was that they may have gotten an exclusive photo with Las Vegas’ hottest new celebrity — the yellow-billed loon, a migratory bird that has taken up residence in the ...

Marilyn Weiler treated the Monday Senior Lunch Bunch to an hour of curious and humorous bird sayings and expressions on Feb.

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous waters off Antarctica. Thanks to a nearly complete fossil skull ...