One pastime that many individuals enjoy during the winter months is bird watching. Birds are magnificent creatures that have unique personalities. If you have a birdfeeder, you have probably seen ...

Learn what an eastern meadowlark looks like and where to find this bird species. Also find out what the bird eats and where ...

Watching a busy backyard feeder from your living room window is fun and exciting, but there’s a wider world of birds waiting to be explored. Species as diverse as tiny yellow warblers and majestic ...

Rhythms can separate a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker from Williamson's Sapsucker.

Next to insects, birds sadly seem to get short shrift from humans. We remain powerfully drawn to scenes of lions hunting in the Kalahari desert or rhinos jousting in eastern India, but remain mostly ...

Birdwatching is often a thankless task, considering that there are estimated to be over 10,000 species of birds in the world, none of which stay in one position for very long. So unless you've ...

Bird identification is challenging, and never more than it is right now. August is the height of misidentification season. In many species, young birds don’t resemble their parents. Their streaky, ...

As any casual or avid birder will affirm, wonderful progress has been made in making birding guides more user-friendly since Roger Tory Peterson published his inaugural "A Field Guide to Birds" in ...

Every feature addition that Google makes to Android and its other products always seems to funnel me back to the company’s original purpose: search. As its name suggests, Circle to Search is one very ...

The free app, Merlin Bird ID, offers quick identification help for all levels of bird watchers and outdoor enthusiasts to ...

So there you have it. Merlin is frequently right and infrequently wrong. It’s a good tool for identifying bird songs, as long as you treat its results as suggestions, not gospel. It can tell you all ...