A glossy black hood, a delicate rosy-pink flush on the breast, and a migration that spans the length of two continents — Franklin's Gull is one of North America's most striking small gulls. Breeding ...

A snow-white heron with wispy plumes and yellow feet, this graceful wader is making a comeback across wetlands worldwide. The Little Egret is a small, all-white egret, similar in shape but half the ...

The Northern Goshawk, more commonly known simply as the goshawk, is a large bird of prey, widespread throughout the northern hemisphere, with deciduous and coniferous forests their preferred habitat.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Coal Tits nest in holes with narrow entrances, sometimes low down in stumps, walls or even the ground, and in small nest boxes. The female builds a mossy cup and lays usually 9 or 10 eggs; the chicks ...

House Finches eat almost nothing but plants: in a classic California study seeds, buds, flowers and fruit made up 97% of their diet, and even their chicks are raised on seeds. At feeders they take ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Northern Mockingbirds build an open twig cup, usually 3 to 10 feet up, in a shrub or tree, lay 2 to 6 spotted blue-green eggs, and the female incubates them for 12 to 13 days. The young leave the nest ...