One of the simplest ways to slow down is to stop, smell the roses and listen to the birds. However, it seems people are starting to do more than just listen to them. The hobby of bird watching might ...

What Does a Black-Capped Chickadee Look Like? Meet the black-capped chickadee, a beginner backyard birder’s dream. The small songbirds are considerably curious about humans and comfortable in our ...

What's that white bird in the swamp? Discover what a great egret eats, where it lives, and how the bird bounced back from ...

This summer, The New York Times, as part of its birding project with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, will share a series of prompts to help readers learn how to start birding. Let’s begin with ...

What’s the best way to learn your local birds? One of the most common methods has traditionally been to get a book. A good field guide to birds will contain illustrations or photos along with helpful ...

I’ve become The Bird Guy to my friends and family. When they see a bird they don’t recognize, I’m asked to identify it with nothing more than a blurry photo. When the algorithms feed them bird-related ...

Waking up to the dawn chorus of birds — one of the natural world’s greatest symphonies — is a joy like no other. It’s not surprising that bird-watching has become an increasingly popular hobby. A ...

"Conk-la-reeee," "teacher, teacher" and "Old Sam Peabody, Peabody, Peabody" − these are ways we humans have ascribed words to identify birds by their call, but it is getting even easier thanks to ...

Last week, on a chilly, brisk afternoon, I joined a group of novice bird watchers to learn to identify birds by their calls. Did you know that the Eastern T ...