Northern Virginians see wild turkeys in parks, cemeteries and occasionally neighborhoods, but the birds’ preferred habitats ...

When traffic suddenly stops on a busy stretch of Clements Bridge Road in Deptford, honking motorists may find an unusual culprit: Tom, a wild turkey, who has become a beloved fixture in the South ...

Sometimes the most common things are extraordinarily beautiful, especially if we just slow down and really take a look. The ...

“A Little Queer Natural History” is a smart book, perfect for quick reads at random at this busy time of year. If that’s what ...

Celebrities love a quirky baby name, and here we've rounded up some unusual favourites, all courtesy of trend-setting, ...

Here’s a look at avian flu. Avian influenza, also called avian flu or bird flu, is an illness that usually affects only birds. There are many different strains of avian flu: 16 H subtypes and 9 N ...

For this month’s Chirp Chat, Lake Effect’s Xcaret Nuñez spoke with Toby Seegert, the Regional Conservation Specialist for the ...

For those who want to attract birds to the yard year-round, there are many considerations to make, one of which is making ...

The western subspecies kept its original name of Spotted Towhee in the divorce and we ended up with the comparatively boring ...

Columnist Shannon Brennan writes that we can learn lessons from “Dickey Downy: The Autobiography of a Bird” to try to stop ...

In the clip, a boy attaches a small plastic bag to the bird’s neck and sends it to a nearby shop to fetch a packet of snacks. The pigeon, demonstrating its impressive homing abilities ...