The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual citizen-science project that gathers data about wild birds. Participants go outside for at least 15 minutes and identify as many birds as they can. If you ...

While other species have elegant, descriptive, diagnostic or geographic modifiers, all of these birds are simply known as "common." That's common eider, common merganser, common tern, common nighthawk ...

The Chattanooga area is known for its biological diversity, but the abundance of bird species that call the region home and migrate through the area may be surprising even to those who think of ...

Most birds spend hours, days, or even weeks painstakingly building their nests. Some birds make nests out of mud, some build nests in trees, and some birds nest on the ground and simply scrape out a ...

What Does a Common Grackle Look Like? At a glance, many birders might confuse a common grackle for other black birds, including European starlings, red-winged blackbirds or American crows. Look closer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Across New York state, from the skyscrapers in NYC, to the high peaks in the Adirondacks to Niagara Falls, bird enthusiasts say ...

The four most numerous bird species in the world as listed by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) — house sparrow, barn swallow, European starling and ring-billed gull — are found in Minnesota in ...