YAKIMA, Wash. -- An excellent fifty-cent word with which to impress your friends - or, perhaps, to make them roll their eyes - is anthropomorphism, in which we describe animals in human terms or even ...

Today we meet the yellow-headed caracara, a fairly new resident of Costa Rica that has an intimate relationship with another, far larger species of wildlife. The yellow-headed caracara (Milvago ...

Birding is one of those hobbies that are all too easy to make fun of until you turn thirty. Then, suddenly and against your better judgment, the notion of spending hours in a bush waiting for a ...

Blackbirds always seem to get a bad rap. As the late Rodney Dangerfield was fond of saying, they “get no respect” in the bird world. I for one would argue that the blackbirds are an amazing group of ...

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 ...

Social media sleuths are trying to solve the mystery of why dozens of birds crashed to their deaths in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. “Pls not bird flu,” quipped American Conservative Union boss Matt ...

A rare bird has been hanging out near Berryville. Shianne Hunnicutt spotted it about a week ago. Yellow bird, being mean to other birds around the feeder. She posted a message on her Facebook page ...

Mary Alice Tartler knows her birds, but she didn’t know this one. She had arrived at her friend’s house on Hilton Head Plantation this past winter to photograph humming birds that frequented a bird ...