Puffins are many people's favourite bird and it’s easy to see why with their striped colourful beaks, black and white plumage ... that storks found babies ("stork stones") in caves or marshes ...
A young man and woman are considering marriage; eugenicist Harry J Haiselden warns that they are ill-matched and will produce defective offspring. He is right; their baby is born defective, dies ...
A black-capped chickadee by any other name is a Poecile atricapillus. That’s the bird’s scientific name, the reference used worldwide to avoid the confusion a list of local names could offer.
While monotypic, birds in the south average smaller and tend to show bare dark grayish skin below eye (similar in shape to the yellow skin on yellow-billed magpie). Black bill and range ...
The crested black and white, Jacobin Cuckoo is an African migrant bird, which is resident and a partial migrant in India ... Phub Dorji and Yeejay spotted the Stork-billed Kingfisher in Phuentsholing ...
Experts are warning of "mass mortality events" of native bird species if a deadly strain of bird flu reaches Australia. A study has found black swans are particularly susceptible to avian influenza.
When Logan Parker first sees a male, black-throated blue warbler near his Maine home each spring, two things strike him about the tiny bird – its stunning appearance and the thousands of miles ...
Known as a "River of Grass," expect to see wading and woodland birds, including Wood Stork, Black-whiskered Vireo, Snail Kite and Short-tailed Hawk. The Audubon Society calls Monhegan Island a "bucket ...