Despite a global population of around 4 million birds, the Philadelphia Vireo remains one of North America's most overlooked songbirds — its song so similar to the abundant Red-eyed Vireo that even ...

An agile songbird darting through India's urban gardens and scrublands, flicking its upright tail and showing off its rich black plumage with striking orange-red patches. The Indian Robin is a small, ...

An outing to the countryside is a lovely way to spend the day, but bird watchers in the UK don’t need to leave home to enjoy some fantastic wild bird species. The United Kingdom is blessed with a host ...

A honking force of nature, these large waterfowl are as much at home on suburban lawns as they are in wild wetlands. The Canada Goose is a large, handsome wildfowl species with a long black neck and ...

Magpies eat almost anything: mostly beetles and other invertebrates, plus small mammals, carrion, seeds and fruit, and some eggs and nestlings. Their chicks are fed mainly insects and other ...

Most Blue Jays stay put in winter, but some migrate, by day and in loose flocks, mostly to the south and southwest. Here is what banding shows about which jays go and where, the huge flights along the ...

Magpies build a big domed nest of sticks high in a tree, starting as early as December. In Britain the first eggs are laid around 22 April: usually 5 or 6 pale blue-green eggs, incubated by the female ...

Baby Mourning Doves hatch blind and thinly covered in down after 14 days of incubation, are fed crop milk and then seeds by both parents, and leave the nest at about two weeks old. The male keeps ...

Male and female Black-capped Chickadees look alike to us. Males average slightly larger, with brighter white, deeper black and bigger bibs, but in the field you can only tell the sexes apart by ...

Seeds. About 99% of a Mourning Dove's diet is seeds, from crops or wild plants, and the little animal food it takes, mostly snails, is incidental. 1 All About Birds adds that they occasionally eat ...

Baby Blue Jays hatch naked after 17 to 18 days and leave the nest at 17 to 21 days, before they can fly well. Their parents feed them for one to two months. A young jay hopping on the ground is ...

Black and white birds are very common in our gardens in the UK. Identifying which species of bird the black and white visitor to your garden is can be tricky, though. In fact, even veteran bird ...