Mr. Yong is a science writer whose most recent book, “An Immense World,” investigates animal perception. Last September, I drove to a protected wetland near my home in Oakland, Calif., walked to the ...

Other than cars, the thing I hear most often at home is birds. I live in Southern California, in a relatively suburban neighborhood, outside of an even more metropolitan downtown. I don’t get the ...

In July 1992, two Danish birders visiting Patagonia, Arizona reported the first-ever, mega-rare cinnamon hummingbird in the United States. Back then, reporting rare birds required phoning in ...

The eBird Taiwan portal has documented about 1.4 million bird sightings since it was launched 10 years ago, making it the seventh-biggest contribution to such records worldwide, the Ministry of ...