It is not a real surprise that the smallest birds in the world belong to the family Trochilidae, commonly known as hummingbirds. However, even within the hummingbird family, there are large ...

Winter poses several challenges for birds. Scarce food supplies and limited water are just a few obvious challenges for nearly all of them. Extremely cold temperatures, strong winds, driving snow ...

Lawmakers considered the goldfinch. Kids liked the scarlet tanager best. The whole thing took more than three decades.

Each year thousands of people across the country and throughout the world count birds during the four-day Great Backyard Bird ...

CONCORD, N.H. — Let’s shift our focus and talk about something other than politics for a minute: If you looked outside your ...

I am seeing just a few purple finches at the feeders now. Last year, over a dozen were here on many days in January. Some may migrate to the south […] ...

The official state dog on Pennsylvania is the Great Dane. It's been the official state dog of Pennsylvania since 1965. New ...