Every winter, thousands of birds funnel into the open grasslands outside Willcox, one of the Southwest’s most biologically ...

While many people enjoy birding to witness the intrinsic beauty of each species, it's a bird’s behavior and its similiarities to humans that draw many birders to study and learn about them, says ...

Arizona offers some of the very best bird watching in the United States. Blame it on our remarkable diversity. Soaring mountains, warm deserts, deep canyons and rolling grasslands provide welcoming ...

Arizona's Sky Islands are known around the world as a birding mecca. Birders who visit the southeastern part of the state can find species such as the violet-crowned hummingbird, Montezuma quail and ...

Arizona is a hummingbird hotspot. People travel far and wide to see these tiny lustrous birds. There are at least a dozen species of hummingbirds in Arizona, the greatest variety of any state. You can ...

The destinations in the U.S. that get birders excited aren’t necessarily the places that other vacationers are flocking: The border city of McAllen near the southern tip of Texas sits on a major ...

After we cross the state line into Arizona — a long, straight, dirt road — we follow directions to our Airbnb, a lovely stone house in the middle of a wide open area of dark green mesquite. All around ...

ALMOST or quite the brightest bird that I saw in Arizona — the Arizona cardinal, well named superbus, being a doubtful exception — was the vermilion flycatcher. I had heard of it as sometimes ...

State officials have detected avian flu in two geese at a Scottsdale park. The discovery, reported Friday by the Arizona Game and Fish Department, comes after the state confirmed Arizona’s first human ...