Despite a global population of around 4 million birds, the Philadelphia Vireo remains one of North America's most overlooked songbirds — its song so similar to the abundant Red-eyed Vireo that even ...

An agile songbird darting through India's urban gardens and scrublands, flicking its upright tail and showing off its rich black plumage with striking orange-red patches. The Indian Robin is a small, ...

The Red Junglefowl is the wild ancestor of every domestic chicken on Earth — a bird whose crow, cluck, and scratch have shaped human civilisation more than any other. Males are spectacular: a cascade ...

Our list for Suffolk has 41 rare birds recorded regularly there: 8 residents, 2 summer visitors, 5 winter visitors, 18 passage migrants and 8 scarce visitors ...

Magpies eat almost anything: mostly beetles and other invertebrates, plus small mammals, carrion, seeds and fruit, and some eggs and nestlings. Their chicks are fed mainly insects and other ...

A female Northern Cardinal is pale tan-brown with red in her crest, wings and tail and the same red-orange bill as the male. How to identify her, how she differs from the male, why her song matters, ...

Most Blue Jays stay put in winter, but some migrate, by day and in loose flocks, mostly to the south and southwest. Here is what banding shows about which jays go and where, the huge flights along the ...

Baby Mourning Doves hatch blind and thinly covered in down after 14 days of incubation, are fed crop milk and then seeds by both parents, and leave the nest at about two weeks old. The male keeps ...

Male and female Black-capped Chickadees look alike to us. Males average slightly larger, with brighter white, deeper black and bigger bibs, but in the field you can only tell the sexes apart by ...

Seeds. About 99% of a Mourning Dove's diet is seeds, from crops or wild plants, and the little animal food it takes, mostly snails, is incidental. 1 All About Birds adds that they occasionally eat ...

A master diver that plunges into both freshwater and coastal habitats, this adaptable bird can be spotted on every continent except Antarctica. The Great Cormorant is a large waterbird with ...

Baby Blue Jays hatch naked after 17 to 18 days and leave the nest at 17 to 21 days, before they can fly well. Their parents feed them for one to two months. A young jay hopping on the ground is ...