A chaffinch's song lasts about three seconds and is repeated; it starts with buzzing notes, slows, descends into a jumble, ...

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In July, the Mount Rainier white-tailed ptarmigan was officially listed as threatened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), 14 years after the Center for ...

Entertaining crowds since 1953, the United States Air Force Thunderbirds are one of the world’s best known aerial demonstrations teams, dazzling ...

Pie, a Harris's Hawk, looks for crows in downtown Denver on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. After three months the falcons had ...

Birds are always up to something, and these entries captured an array of avians doing everything from impaling prey to ...

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When America's Founding Fathers affixed a bald eagle to the Great Seal of the United States in 1782, they likely had no idea ...

Conjuring images of the desert, these yuccas — sometimes called Adam’s needle — aren’t damaged by cold, poking through with ...

Learn what a Calliope hummingbird looks like, where to find these tiny birds in the U.S., and how to attract them.