Birds are some of nature’s most beautiful creatures — but a few of our feathered friends are truly bizarre — like these 25 weirdest birds in the world.

My friend Trip Lamb’s recent photographs from Africa reinforced for me the value of vicarious ecology, which I define as enjoying someone else’s outdoor experiences. Vicarious ecology offers ways to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first recorded sighting of a common cuckoo in New York recently created a stir in the birding community. As reported by CBS ...

A team of biologists at the University of Texas has reported catching a rare hybrid bird in a suburb of San Antonio. According to UT Austin, the animal is the offspring of a male blue jay and a female ...

The unusually mild winter has brought about some very unusual bird numbers. A case in point came the first weekend in January in Bryan when I thought I was hearing the unmistakable sound of the ...

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 ...

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — The mild U.S. winter is reflected in the most unusual reports in the 15-year history of the Great Backyard Bird Count, a citizen's science project conducted across North America ...

The past year was a below average one for bird species seen in Berks County as 244 were documented, which is eight species less than the 25-year average. In addition, only a few rare or unusual birds ...