The calliope hummingbird, North America's smallest bird, migrates through Utah each summer. A banding event on July 19 at Red Canyon Lodge will study these birds.

Every year, billions of birds undertake intrepid journeys between temperate regions in North America and their tropical wintering grounds in South America.

Every year, many thousands of birds are banded this way by researchers and avian enthusiasts in Canada and the U.S. As the ...

One summer night three years ago, a chimney swift flitted over the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area, where a ...

From piping plovers to American oystercatchers, this Plymouth-based conservation group tracks bird recovery while connecting ...

Iowa is an “important” migratory corridor and has some of the highest numbers of migrating birds – up to 1 billion in some ...

In Mississippi, peak migration can be expected from April 21 through the first of May for the southern counties. Central and north Mississippi can see heavy traffic from about April 24 into mid-May.

In fact, he places it at the top. “The long-billed curlew is North America’s most magnificent shorebird,” he writes in the book, “the master of the Magnificent Seven.” Whimbrel ...

Hundreds of species, from as far as South America, commonly stop in Kentucky to find food and rest their wings after ...

The young students ran across the room with their arms flapping as they took an active role in a lesson about bird migration ...

New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

North America’s largest species of swallow, Purple Martins winter in the rainforests of Brazil before making up to a 7000-mile migration north into the eastern United States and Canada.