Big Garden Birdwatch is the world’s largest garden wildlife survey. Each year, on the last weekend of January, hundreds of ...

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 sunny yellow-hued American goldfinch, which has a black forehead marking, can be seen all over the states. For a real ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Multiple types of birds at a bird feeder - Nitr/Shutterstock Having a bird feeder in your backyard can indeed be a rewarding ...

From purple martins to barn swallows, find out how to spot and identify 8 members of the swallow bird family during summer.

A Sarasota-based electronics company named after a breed of sea turtle has developed an electronic listening device that – when combined with an artificial intelligence database developed by Cornell ...

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 ...