Smithsonian Magazine

Rare, Out-of-Place Cuckoo Sends Birders Flocking to Long Island in Hopes of a Once-in-a-Lifetime Sighting

Birds that end up far from home, like the New York common cuckoo, are known as “vagrants.” They’re fairly common during ...
Riverhead News Review

Birders from near and far go ‘cuckoo’ for rare bird spotted in Riverhead

Birders have been flocking to Riverhead since Friday morning hoping to catch a glimpse of the rarest bird to be spotted in ...
The Suffolk Times

North Fork birders and beyond go ‘cuckoo’ for rare bird in Riverhead

Birders have been flocking to Riverhead since Friday hoping to see the rarest bird spotted in New York in a long time, the common cuckoo.
Star Tribune

The four most common birds in the world — all live in Minnesota.

The four most numerous bird species in the world as listed by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) — house sparrow, barn swallow, European starling and ring-billed gull — are found in Minnesota in ...
WUNC

European conservationists are teaching endangered birds how to migrate

Conservationists in Europe are trying to figure out how to do that with an endangered bird, the northern bald ibis. Johannes Fritz is one of them. He is a biologist based in Austria. JOHANNES FRITZ: ...