A tropical bird never before seen in Colorado drew dozens of Front Range birders to a lake on the Eastern Plains this weekend – and helped one birder become the first person known to check off 500 ...

A tropical bird that has no business in Colorado just landed on the Eastern Plains, and it made local birding history.

What Does an Ash-Throated Flycatcher Look Like? “What kind of bird is this? It was photographed in Show Low, Arizona,” asks Birds & Blooms reader Dick Anderson of Sun City, Arizona. Birding experts ...

This spring and summer, I’ve been exploring many of the migratory birds that visit us during the nesting season, including the swallows, our summer warblers and three diverse members of the cardinal ...

An elaborate waving red crest catches the eye, a shot of crimson color hanging from a jungle vine in a tangle of debris, the feathers of a tiny bird. Its waving signal is a display of the royal ...

Wonderful to be home again, home again from a month away! We arrive back on May Day, the beginning of the best birding season here in the Berkshires with migrants streaming in under the cover of ...

To follow an olive-sided flycatcher, first you have to catch it. By Emily Anthes For an olive-sided flycatcher, migration can be a marathon. Some of the soot-colored songbirds travel more than 15,000 ...

ALWAYS IN SEASON: Flycatchers deserve pride of place as summer birds The title "Birds of the Summer" surely should go to the aerial insect-eaters. Chief among them are the swallows, so numerous this ...

What Does an Ash-Throated Flycatcher Look Like? Key field marks include the reddish-brown tail and wings and yellow belly. “What kind of bird is this? It was photographed in Show Low, Arizona,” asks ...