Stories about hummingbirds, owls, falcons, and many more fascinating species.
A Whooping Crane takes flight at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas. The bird’s wingspan can measure up to 7 feet, 7 inches. Photo by Richard Seeley/Shutterstock
Red Knots received good news when pharmaceutical companies announced they would rely less on horseshoe crab blood for medical testing. Read More “New hope for Red Knots”
How biologists and volunteers are working to return the endangered shorebirds to their historic nesting locales in the Great Lakes. Read More “Helping Piping Plovers return home”
An excursion to see and hear the American Woodcock’s courtship display strikes gold, near a place that woodcocks helped save from development. Read More “A spring twilight spectacular: American Woodcock’s courtship display”
As spring arrives earlier each year, Yellow-crowned Night-Herons mysteriously adjust the timing of their return to the emergence of fiddler crabs. Read More “Yellow-crowned Night-Heron adjusts its migration pattern to fiddler crabs”
A wildlife biologist describes how her love of birds and birding started when she first saw this diving duck. Read More “How the Hooded Merganser sparked a love of birds”
How an encounter with a rare tropical songbird spurred a group of birders to help protect its habitat. Read More “Helping save Yellow-billed Cotinga in Costa Rica”
Kenn Kaufman’s column “ID Tips” appears in every issue of BirdWatching. In our June 2017 issue, he described the differences between Swainson’s, Hermit, and Gray-cheeked … Read More “Should Swainson’s Thrush be split into two species?”
