Astoria, first spotted in Queens last spring, is now a resident of Lower Manhattan, where three devoted women watch over her.

A UPS driver trying to make deliveries in one Connecticut neighborhood ended up in a battle with a flock of wild turkeys in a ...

Skip the roses this Valentine’s Day, and grab your binoculars and a field guide for science, with this weekend's Great Backyard Bird Count.

We've had a cold and windy winter with plenty of snow, making it hard for folks to get out and about. What about the wildlife ...

Zoo staff say the female hawk and female turkey vulture share food, preen each other and have even attempted to raise eggs.

Love 'em or not, the vulture bird is an essential part of our ecosystem. Find out why vultures don't sing, how long they live ...

Thousands of dead fish, almost all of them tilapia, floated in a marsh at Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland the morning of Feb. 8.

The State Museum hosts Superb Owl Sunday, a show of owls and other birds of prey held hours before the Super Bowl.

When we think about birds, we often picture their colourful plumage: the iridescence of a peacock's tail or the electric blue flash of a kingfisher ...

Starlings and blue tits, meanwhile, use scent to seek out aromatic plants such as yarrow, hogweed and elder, which they weave ...

These recent sightings are compiled by Sue McGrath of Newburyport Birders. Report your sightings to Newburyport Birders at newburyportbirders@comcast.net or 978-204-2976.

Until now the behavior had been undocumented in the species, but recent research has also revealed that more birds of prey ...