A male Blackbird sings slow, mellow, whistled phrases, each usually ending in a short, scratchy twitter, most regularly from March to June and richest at dawn. Its calls include a loud chink, a low ...

A bright rufous cap, a razor-clean white eyebrow, and a bold black eye-stripe make the breeding Chipping Sparrow one of the most crisply marked small birds in North America. Once the most common city ...

Despite a global population of around 4 million birds, the Philadelphia Vireo remains one of North America's most overlooked songbirds — its song so similar to the abundant Red-eyed Vireo that even ...

Seeds. About 99% of a Mourning Dove's diet is seeds, from crops or wild plants, and the little animal food it takes, mostly snails, is incidental. 1 They occasionally eat berries. 2 Where farmers grow ...

Murmurations are the winter displays of Starlings swirling over their roost at dusk, mainly from November to February. Here is when and where to see one in the UK, why Starlings do it, and how ...

A group of turkeys is usually called a flock. The best-known special term is a rafter, whose earliest printing we found is from 1908, and the oldest American one is a gang, from 1709. "Dole" goes back ...

With razor-sharp talons and a powerful build, this fierce raptor rules the treetops of sub-Saharan Africa's forests. The Crowned Eagle is a striking raptor with a dark brown back, black-barred white ...

Most Blue Jays stay put in winter, but some migrate, by day and in loose flocks, mostly to the south and southwest. Here is what banding shows about which jays go and where, the huge flights along the ...

Magpies build a big domed nest of sticks high in a tree, starting as early as December. In Britain the first eggs are laid around 22 April: usually 5 or 6 pale blue-green eggs, incubated by the female ...

A raven is bigger than a crow, with a wedge-shaped tail and a deep croak. A crow caws Size alone misleads, because a lone crow can look huge. Listen first, then watch it fly: a raven soars and tumbles ...

Baby pigeons, called squabs, hatch after 16-19 days with closed eyes and a sparse coat of yellow down. Both parents feed them crop milk from the lining of the crop, then seeds. They stay hidden in the ...

Few bird families capture the imagination quite like finches, these seed-cracking specialists whose remarkable diversity brings vibrancy to Britain's skies year-round. With their distinctive conical ...