As warmer weather arrives, backyard birdwatchers are gearing up to welcome hummingbirds and other songbirds to their gardens. But with so many different kinds of birds and a variety of seeds and ...

On a backcountry hike I enjoyed a much different, “wow” moment watching a massive bald eagle spread 6-foot wings and gracefully lift into the sky with a few measured wing beats.

Why do flocks of birds swoop and swirl together in the sky? – Artie W., age 9, Astoria, New York A shape-shifting flock of thousands of starlings, called a murmuration, is amazing to see.

Cameras recorded footage in red, blue, green and UV channels simultaneously, with openly available software processing the raw footage and converting it into different kinds of "animal vision ...

On a backcountry hike I enjoyed a much different, “wow” moment watching a massive bald eagle spread 6-foot wings and gracefully lift into the sky with a few measured wing beats.

Stephen Gill's new book of photographs, The Pillar, thrums with the spirit of birds, and demonstrates that without them, there is no land; without the birds, there are no pictures.

A shape-shifting flock of thousands of starlings, called a murmuration, is amazing to see. As many as 750,000 birds join in flight. The birds spread out and come together. The flock splits apart ...

But always the dark got too deep, or the birds skated too wide and far across the sky for me to follow. For years we thought vesper flights were simply swifts flying higher up to sleep on the wind.