Birds & Blooms readers captured extraordinary photos when some unusual, rare birds showed up in unexpected places.

It's always fun to watch birds perched on your backyard trees or feeding stations. And if they happen to be a rare sight in your area? You could easily spend a few hours looking up their ID, logging ...

Eastern birdwatchers received a special treat when a rare visitor was spotted earlier this month. According to the Pennsylvania Game Commission, a varied thrush typically only found along the West ...

Birds are some of the most visually stunning creatures on Earth, and many of them feature vibrant colors. While plenty of ...

With diverse habitats and hundreds of species, New Mexico is a birdwatching hotspot. Find out where to go for the best ...

Birds of a feather flock together, the adage goes. But a rare bird spotted in Texas suggests there's more ornithological intermingling than previously thought. When researchers at the University of ...

BRAINERD — For a brief period each spring, colorful songbirds gather. Some are migrating — en route northward — while others are busy staking out nesting territories. The males, of course, are singing ...

New Zealand's rarest birds have seemingly come back from the dead. For decades, they were thought to be extinct until tiny populations were rediscovered, the holdouts that survived against the odds.