It's always fun to watch birds perched on your backyard trees or feeding stations. And if they happen to be a rare sight in your area? You could easily spend a few hours looking up their ID, logging ...

Photographer Tim Flach has three goldfish and two Burmese cats. The latter, Hunt and Blue, eagerly keep their owner company ...

New Zealand's rarest birds have seemingly come back from the dead. For decades, they were thought to be extinct until tiny populations were rediscovered, the holdouts that survived against the odds.

The sudden burst of rare sightings has drawn attention and speculation. Are more rare birds actually arriving in Texas, or are people just getting better at spotting them? "The answer is a little ...

Last week’s Nor’easter brought more than wind and rain to Massachusetts. It bought with it some birds from down South. Most notable was a roseate spoonbill, a large, pink wading bird with a large ...