When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first spotted the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird biologists weren’t sure what they were looking at. The chick, just a day ...

Spring is in the air — which means nest-making season is upon us! Birds build their nests out ... The female red-winged blackbird is brown and speckled and not at all like the male.

Swallows, one of the real signs of spring to many, start to soar overhead from early March. Originally cave dwellers, they ...

Lovebirds’ story: As piping plover monitors, Eden Essex and her partner, Daniel Eastman, regularly don bright orange shirts ...

Explore daily insights on the USA TODAY crossword puzzle by Sally Hoelscher. Uncover expert takes and answers in our ...

Meet the great potoo, a mysterious nocturnal bird from Central and South America. It has a unique ability—it can see even with its eyes closed! Let’s explore more about this fascinating bird.

The NestWatch project at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology invites people to monitor bird nests near you and share in the lives of birds from nest building to fledging. NestWatch has been documenting ...

A surefire and highly optimistic harbinger of spring is the great horned owl. The massive owl is the first Ohio bird species ...