“Northern mockingbirds seem to enjoy sitting on this euonymus shrub. I always look for them in fall. When I took this photo, the striking backdrop was a crimson and orange maple tree. All the season’s ...

(CNN) — The ‘akikiki, a small, gray bird native to Hawaii, may not look remarkable, but its rarity is. Only five are thought to remain in the wild and, according to the state’s Department of Land and ...

“Zu-wee, zu-wee, zu-wee, zu-wee.” A loud voice drones on and on from somewhere in the canopy of an oak. I search for the source of this monotonous music and eventually encounter a surprisingly small, ...

It’s been a week for diversity in the bird world. We’ve had big black birds, big white birds, big black-and-white birds. We’ve had small brown birds, small gray birds, small orange birds and small ...

A few months ago, I wrote a column about the largest birds in our area. It’s easy for everyday people to think of birds in everyday terms, dismissing sparrows and blackbirds as insubstantial and ...