The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at ...

All the season’s colors made the gray mockingbird seem so majestic,” says Birds & Blooms reader Sujata Roy. In addition to gray birds, you should learn to identify these small red birds. Canada Jay ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Many Native Americans are marking ceremonies like graduations with bald eagle feathers, a form of reverence for the bird they ...

Weighing up to 30 pounds and supported by short, stubby orange legs with webbed feet, the American white pelican waddles like penguins when moving on land. All the while, a supersized orange bill juts ...

"All whooping cranes today are descended from only 14 adults remaining on the Texas coast in 1941", he added. Thanks to decades of legal protection, habitat restoration and cross-border collaboration, ...

New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

BigPicture began in 2014 and has received more than 64,000 images from photographers around the world since launching. The ...