Birds

A group of birders visit a landfill on Texas’s southern border in search of a bird. Antics ensue.

New research from the University of Maine records small shorebirds responding aggressively to predatory deer for the first time.

Four Rye residents have filed a lawsuit in hopes of forcing the town to reopen the Goss Farm barn to a colony of barn swallows.

Bluebirds are beautiful and particular; the right nest box will help encourage them to raise a family in your yard.

For some birds, warmer weather is bringing marital problems.

It may not seem like it, but the days are slowly lengthening, and there are other glimmers in the winter landscape.

In winter, many gardeners bring their yards alive with color and movement by feeding birds.

Gino Ellison spent a year trying to see as many birds as possible, and has advice for how you can create your own Big Year.

As the climate warms, scientists are working against the clock to solve a mystery about why the Bicknell's thrush, which travels thousands of miles to raise its young on mountaintops across Vermont and the Northeast, is declining.

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire are using solar-powered tags to track salt marsh sparrows and collect data which can better inform marsh restoration and preservation efforts across New England.