Just after dawn in Washington, D.C., Stephanie Haley is walking a familiar downtown route, scanning the sidewalk next to office buildings. There, huddled on the ground, is a motionless olive-green ...

Birds are on the move as their annual spring migration begins. Radar tracking allows you to follow along to see what birds are flying overhead as the birds move to their summer feeding grounds. "The ...

Birders are all aflutter after a yellow-headed caracara, a bird native to South America, was spotted in the area of the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation's Maritime Campus in Wilmington. It's the northernmost ...

Geese lift off a lake in front of a sun pillar at Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge near Mound City, Missouri. © Mike Hollingshead/Corbis As summer turns to fall ...

A curiously named bird rarely spotted outside South America has apparently made itself at home in Galveston, exciting and delighting the Southeast Texas birding community. The Galveston County Daily ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Aside from being a delight to watch, flight in birds is regarded by many cultures as a symbol of freedom, and a source of inspiration for humans ...

Pectoral sandpipers hunt for food in the mud flats of Lake Red Rock, a flood-control reservoir about 25 miles southeast of Des Moines. Photo by Stephen Dinsmore/Iowa State University. Nonstop flights ...

Spring migrations runs between March 1 and June 15. Fall migration runs between August 1 and November 30. Peak spring migration is in April. Birds are on the move as their annual spring migration ...