Val Cunningham regularly answers reader questions about birds and birding. Submit your own questions below. Q:We hear a lot about protecting our pets during heat waves, but I’ve been wondering how ...

At first glance, Blackie & Co.: Blackbirds in My Garden, by the English writer Hockley Clarke, is quite unsurprisingly a nice ...

At least 4,000 bird species (or roughly 40 percent of world’s known birds) are regular migrants. The Arctic tern wins the ...

Attract more birds before fall migration with these no-effort garden tips, including leaving flower heads, keeping leaves, ...

Birds find feeders by sight, not smell. Sunflower seed in a plastic tube gives off nothing a bird could follow at ten meters.

Backyard bird feeders help urbanites feel close to nature but can also expose birds to disease and other potential threats. Luckily, bird lovers can take simple steps to reduce risks. Conservation ...

If you're not a bird person, you may not be able to distinguish between the different sounds birds make. Birdsong—the ...

Even in protected areas, birds are disappearing from America's prairies, and unpredictable weather isn't helping. That's the ...

In a rectangular room draped in camouflage netting, four Harris’s hawks took turns flying back and forth between grass-covered perches while scientists recorded their every biomechanical flutter. The ...