Every once in awhile, someone asks, "How should I get started birding?" It's a better question than I initially realized. For years, my answer has been, "Just go out and look. Watch carefully. Note ...

Have you ever looked at a bird and wondered, how can it be so red or so blue or so intensely yellow? Well, if you have, then you and several researchers have something in common. A new study finds ...

Birds are among the most beautiful creations of nature, especially those with crests or crowns on their heads, and they have ...

My grandmother reveled at the sight of bright yellow birds with black caps that attended the zinnias in her garden each summer. Wild canaries, she called them. What she didn’t know is that the only ...

Off and on this spring and summer, I've had the same query: Where are the goldfinches? While we have goldfinches in the Tri-State year-round, they aren't necessarily the same goldfinches. "Our" birds ...

A Cary woman discovered a yellow parakeet in the grass outside a school while she was on her morning run. She had no idea the bird had been missing 3 months, somehow surviving severe storms, floods ...

This is about a celebrity sighting. Of sorts. On my way out the door last week, I glanced out the window over the kitchen sink and saw something odd. Sitting on the seed tray of the backyard ...