What bird is this? These five species are the most likely to be at your feeder

Backyard birds may seem ordinary, but there's more than meets the eye. Our database shows you the top ten birds in your state ...
KRQE Blogs

200 year-old bird classification mistake discovered by UNM student

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Jenna McCullough, A PhD candidate at the University of New Mexico is calling into question 200 years of assumptions about a species of bird in Africa. “This is called a ...
The Berkshire Eagle

A year of birds at the feeders: Species counts, surprises and setbacks

Happy New Year everybody! As is customary at this time of year, I am going to pause to take a look back at the events of the ...

What makes mountain birds sing at dawn—and why are they sometimes quiet? Ecologists explain

Three species of the melodic African warbler bird refuse to get up early and sing their customary daybreak songs when the ...
ucdavis.edu

Owl or Nothing: Learning 300 Birds in 10 Weeks

Rows of orioles, buntings and other birds line a table during the Laboratory in Biology & Conservation of Wild Birds class. (Malia Reiss/UC Davis) I was a plant girl. As an undergraduate student at UC ...
Mongabay on MSN

How are California’s birds faring amid ever more frequent wildfires?

In the forests of the Sierra Nevada, the black-backed woodpecker is without parallel. The bird appears almost born of fire, ...