Just like people, songbirds are groggy and quiet after a rough night’s sleep—and it could be a threat to their survival.

Audubon field editor Kenn Kaufman breaks down this year’s checklist changes from the American Ornithological Society.

Montreal sits near the top of the Lesser Yellowlegs’ far-flung range, which stretches from North America's boreal forest all ...

From their unusual anatomy to their nesting behavior, Chimney Swifts are among the strangest of our common avian species. The ...

The Baltimore Oriole flashes its brilliant colors from high up in the trees of open woods and groves in the East, singing out ...

The House Wren is a familiar and lively neighborhood bird with a rich bubbling song, subtly patterned brown plumage, and a ...

In this mural by artist Farid Hadechini, titled “A Flight of Colors,” a Rose-breasted Grosbeak and American Tree Sparrow ...

Recording Streaked Shearwaters gave scientists a new window into the role seabirds play in fueling marine food webs—and possibly spreading avian flu—far from land.

Vulnerable Birds in Central Flyway Rising temperatures and shifting weather patterns affect birds' ability to find food and reproduce, which over time impacts local populations, and ultimately ...

The life’s work of both a lover and observer of birds and nature. John James Audubon's Birds of America is a portal into the ...

The world’s largest hummingbird has been flying under the radar—sort of. At first glance, the two South American birds once lumped together as the Giant Hummingbird may appear nearly identical, but ...

For a month the researchers had traversed slender mountain ridges, crossed and re-crossed rivers that roared through canyons cloaked in tropical forest, and endured bloodthirsty mosquitoes and leeches ...