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 ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jeff R Clow/Getty Images Whether you're a self-proclaimed ornithophile or you simply enjoy the occasional backyard bird sighting, ...

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 ...

What's in a name? When to comes to birds, the answer sometimes is confusing. Some of the names conflict with the bird's identity or mislead about identification. Some, of course, couldn't be more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

What’s the best way to learn your local birds? One of the most common methods has traditionally been to get a book. A good field guide to birds will contain illustrations or photos along with helpful ...