Being an expert birdwatcher may alter the structure and function of your brain. And these changes may enhance cognition even as you age, new research suggests.

Expert birders show denser brain tissue in attention and visual regions, suggesting the skill may help slow certain aspects ...

Research shows that as individuals learn and acquire a new skill, their brain structure and activity changes. But how do more ...

Fly from biome to biome and see what you can find.

Expert birdwatchers have changes in their brain structure compared with novices, which probably help them better identify birds and may even protect against age-related cognitive decline ...

The rare visitor was chased off by an unleashed dog, frustrating birders but creating a ‘teachable moment’ about Beaufort ...

But all birds have high body temperatures. The chickadee’s best trick is to go into torpor every night, a brief form of hibernation that reduces their body temperature by 20 degrees, saving energy. In ...

You might think the early morning is the only good time to go birding, but there is something to see at any time of day. Here are some tips. By Camille Baker This week, for The New York Times’s summer ...

Last year, the fourth year of my retirement, I once again started keeping an annual list of birds spotted, and made excursions to nature centers and to state parks for the sole purpose of ...

Tamir Gray had been skeptical when his girlfriend invited him along to bird-watch one weekend last spring. He figured it would be boring. Gray was still in university and had been living according to ...

Friends of Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge will present its March Second Sunday Program, 2026 Birding Hot Stove/Q&A, ...