Every bird-watcher has a “nemesis bird”–that one bird that has evaded you your whole life no matter how hard you’ve tried to find it. This bird might not even be rare, but it has eluded you despite ...

The mystery of the color-changing woodpecker has been solved. For years, scientists have been confused as to why up to one-third of yellow-shafted northern flickers (Colaptes auratus auratus), a type ...

I wrote three weeks ago about my affinity for the nuthatches we see in New England. In the middle and southern parts of the region we see White-breasted Nuthatches much more frequently than its ...

Keep your eyes and ears peeled. Tiny, charismatic birds called red-breasted nuthatches could appear anytime in a backyard or park near you — making a distinctive nasal yank-yank-yank call as they go.

The yellow-breasted bunting was once one of the world’s “superabundant” birds, but due to persecution and over-exploitation of the species, they have almost disappeared. The population of the ...

The Rocky Mountain and Great Basin representative of the yellow-bellied sapsucker complex, the red-naped sapsucker closely resembles the yellow­bellied sapsucker, and the 2 hybridize in southwestern ...