In our long ago childhoods, that question was asked daily by stunned frontier townspeople, after the masked man, having foiled a bad man, shouted “Hi ho, Silver!” and rode off on his white horse, ...

This year, we enjoyed the welcome and constant companionship of a family of gray jays. A bold and curious bird, the gray jay ...

The white-necked jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) is a jewel-toned hummingbird found in the neotropical lowlands of South ...

The possession of feathers and other parts of native North American birds without a permit is banned by the Migratory Bird ...

Glossy black and white bodies and wings with a beautiful iridescent blue-green sheen on their back and tail feathers, both ...

A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...

Tiny hummingbird chicks were observed mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to survive in the Panama rainforest–a first for science.

Dust baths. For humans, getting covered in dust would be a reason to take a bath, not something in which to bathe. For birds, however, dust baths are a well-documented phenomenon; and while we can’t ...

Before I rushed off to worship services one morning, I glanced out my backyard window at our bare black oak tree that shook in the frigid, late February wind. Alighting peacefully on one of the ...

Inspired by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace’s visit nearly two centuries ago, an isolated Indigenous community in Brazil ...

The Paradise Tanager is a stunning bird with beautiful colours that is a true gem in the avian world. It comes from the rainforests of South America and showcases the beauty of nature. This bird has a ...