It's always fun to watch birds perched on your backyard trees or feeding stations. And if they happen to be a rare sight in your area? You could easily spend a few hours looking up their ID, logging ...

While the exact number is difficult to gauge, there are approximately between 11,000 and 20,000 different bird species. Out of all these species, 12% of all living birds, approximately 1,200 species, ...

The overall state of birds can seem rather grim. Almost a third of North American bird species are in decline, and in the last five decades, more than 100 species have lost over half of their ...

“These rare bird occurrences could just be lost birds that are not going to survive,” Van Doren said. “But there is another perspective, that maybe they're not so ‘lost.’ Maybe they are explorers.” ...