Given their brown, stripy, marsh-appropriate camouflage, their rail-like thinness and ability to stand still, or imitate wind in the grass, it’s not easy to get a good look at one.

The sunflower hearts — shelled sunflower seeds — that we both offer are happily devoured, but they are not the key ingredient in the birds’ survival. What the American goldfinches ...

Twenty-eight-year-old Michigan native Danny Bernard’s bright blue eyes twinkled as he spoke about his cross-country “People, ...

New birds for the count this year included a Bald Eagle, American Bittern, Western Screech-Owl ... 26 other conservationists started counting all the bird species they could see on Christmas ...

The bird — a type of heron known as a bittern — was recorded in Jersey, the largest of the islands, by wildlife photographer John Ovenden. “The very secretive Bittern made an appearance at ...

Encompassing over 187,000 acres of varied terrain, the refuge's abundant food and water provide breeding and nesting grounds for more than 340 species of birds — well over half of all ... ibis, ...

A few weeks ago, my nephew texted me about an encounter he had with a hawk while getting in his regular run around his neighborhood in Washington, D.C. He wasn’t sure if the bird, which zoomed ...

What We Know About Bird Flu By Apoorva Mandavilli, Christina Thornell, Gabriel Blanco and David Jouppi • January 27, 2025 In recent months, bird flu has started raising red flags among ...

Official release The McDonald’s All-American Game is the preeminent showcase for the top high-school basketball talent in the country. CHICAGO – The McDonald’s All American Games is headed ...

Jan. 2, 2025 — Birds are the undisputed champions of epic travel -- but they are not the only long-haul fliers. A handful of bats are known to travel thousands of kilometers in continental ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. America’s national bird, the bald eagle, is having a moment. The eagles are in a sort of environmental ...