A Purple Finch in the middle of molting makes for a strange picture but is an essential part of the bird's life.

SAN ANTONIO - We’ve all seen it. Maybe it was flocks flying in V-shaped formation, filling the sky at dawn or dusk. Perhaps it was majestic cranes stopping on a long journey to rest by a river, a ...

This is the second column on the words used to name the 4,600 or so species of birds in the Western Hemisphere. As I pointed out in Part I, some color names are used often while others are rare. In ...

GRAYS HARBOR, Wash. — A Grays Harbor County resident has preliminarily tested positive for avian influenza (bird flu), ...

Many types of birds — such as hummingbirds, peacocks and parrots — are vividly colorful, but birds-of-paradise are especially flamboyant with hues of emerald, lemon, cobalt and ruby. Now, research has ...