SALT LAKE CITY — It's about 3 inches long and weighs as much as a penny. But a calliope hummingbird is a tough little bird. It can fly up to 5,600 miles in a year. Despite its tiny stature, the ...

Birdwatching, or birding, is a hobby that doesn’t end. It’s not like tennis, with matches and sets, or woodworking, where you can look back on a finished project with pride. Instead, it is all about ...

Great egrets and little blue herons. Blue-winged warblers and yellow-bellied sapsuckers. Snowy owls and tropical kingbirds. Across North America, three-fourths of bird species are in decline, ...

Migratory birds that fill North American forests with spring songs depend on Central America’s Five Great Forests far more than most people realize. New research shows these tropical strongholds ...

In a talk titled The Courage of Birds: And the Often Surprising Ways They Survive Winter, bird expert Pete Dunne will discuss the adaptations of North American birds that allow them to survive ...

It was the third week in January, with the temperature gauge registering minus 17 degrees at 6 a.m. The sun wasn’t even up yet, but dozens of small birds were hopping on the snow beneath a backyard ...

"If we lose the last great forests of Central America—and we are—we lose the birds that define our eastern forests in North America," said Jeremy Radachowsky, Regional Director for WCS's Mesoamerica ...