Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sandhill cranes can be spotted in many states, but in the 1930s their populations had crashed to a few dozen breeding pairs in the ...

From waterfowl to warblers, rare birds sometimes end up in places we wouldn’t expect to see them, which makes birding even more exciting! Rare Bird Alerts through eBird can help keep you informed of ...

Birds of a feather flock together, the adage goes. But a rare bird spotted in Texas suggests there's more ornithological intermingling than previously thought. When researchers at the University of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Tom Langen, Clarkson University (THE CONVERSATION) When I started bird-watching as a ...

When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived in my region were nowhere to be found. Some, like the passenger pigeon, ...