Just like people, songbirds are groggy and quiet after a rough night’s sleep—and it could be a threat to their survival.

Audubon field editor Kenn Kaufman breaks down this year’s checklist changes from the American Ornithological Society.

Montreal sits near the top of the Lesser Yellowlegs’ far-flung range, which stretches from North America's boreal forest all ...

From their unusual anatomy to their nesting behavior, Chimney Swifts are among the strangest of our common avian species. The ...

Recording Streaked Shearwaters gave scientists a new window into the role seabirds play in fueling marine food webs—and possibly spreading avian flu—far from land.

The House Wren is a familiar and lively neighborhood bird with a rich bubbling song, subtly patterned brown plumage, and a ...

The Baltimore Oriole flashes its brilliant colors from high up in the trees of open woods and groves in the East, singing out ...

In this mural by artist Farid Hadechini, titled “A Flight of Colors,” a Rose-breasted Grosbeak and American Tree Sparrow ...

The life’s work of both a lover and observer of birds and nature. John James Audubon's Birds of America is a portal into the ...

About the Mural: In this mural painted by Yukiko Izumi, male and female Blackpoll Warblers pop amid a tangle of native plants: black-eyed Susan, elderberry, New England aster, blue wild indigo, and ...

Almost all of our sandpipers migrate in flocks and nest on the ground, but the Solitary Sandpiper breaks both rules. In migration, as its name implies, it is usually encountered alone, along the bank ...

The only gull nesting along most of the Pacific Coast from Washington to Baja, this large species is common at all seasons. An opportunist, it often nests around colonies of other seabirds, where it ...