New Jersey's first Broad-tailed Hummingbird, Maryland's first Virginia's Warbler, Maryland's first Pink-footed Goose, the sixth-ever Snowy Owl in Texas, and more rare-bird sightings.

What surveys completed by birdwatchers from May 2010 to November 2011 at six popular birding destinations in Ohio reveal about the economic impact of birding in the state.

How researchers using light-level geolocators have obtained the first evidence that Black Swifts that breed in western North America spend the winter in Brazil in South America.

How the practice of selective logging in coastal old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest often removes the trees that Marbled Murrelets are most likely to choose as nest locations.

Why biologists believe that the number of endangered Whooping Cranes that breed in Canada and winter in Texas may not reach 1,000 birds, an important goal for the recovery of the species, for another half century.

Why five teams of researchers in the last three years have reached the same disappointing conclusion — that the Ivory-billed Woodpecker is in fact extinct.