"Bird about the size of a cow bird, dark gray back, light gray breast with a red patch about 2 in bottom of the breast." I received the above message as the subject line of an email in mid October.

Bushtits—almost impossibly tiny gray birds that live in flocks across the western United States—are not hard to spot in the Bay Area. I usually become aware of them by noticing a chorus of peeping in ...

Somewhere around Homer, Alaska, lives a gray-crowned rosy-finch who’s blissfully unaware it’s an award winner. Evergreen photographer Alan Murphy managed to capture its frosty visage one winter’s day ...

I took my first serious bird tour in September 2005. That was a monthlong trip through northern Peru with Manu Expeditions and the legendary Barry Walker. I had knocked around Mexico and made a few ...

If you think you hear a cat mewing from the branches of a tree or shrub, you might want to look for this unique bird. Gray catbirds are easily identified by their all-over gray plumage and black cap, ...

The adjectives Oregon and gray describe many things -- but a turkey? As interest in how and where we grow food sends more Thanksgiving cooks in search of less-commercial heritage turkeys, despite the ...