In September, migrating hawks, turkey vultures, and kestrels flood the skies above Veracruz State in eastern Mexico. Michael Stein shares an excerpt from Scott Weidensauls book Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, as he witnesses hundreds of thousands of raptors on this migration.
The Florida Everglades are home to a bird called the Snail Kite. It eats only one type of snail and is endangered because its wetland habitat has been altered.
The Willow Ptarmigan is a handsome bird that nests up on the Alaskan tundra. But it has a downright silly laugh of a voice.
Every year, the spring rains bring life, and birdcalls, back to the California desert.
Although it’s a mere 5 and a half inches long, thanks to some remarkable anatomy, the Carolina Wren has one of the loudest voices in the forest.
To make themselves heard in noisy city gardens, urban birds sing higher and faster.
Broad areas of sagebrush in the west are being displaced by agriculture, threatening the impressive mating displays of the male Greater Sage-Grouse and the species existence.
Early rising birds may have the best chance of snaring an unwary worm, but birds that sleep later may well have a longer life.
Far out in the Pacific Ocean, nearly a million Layson Albatrosses have set up their nesting colonies on Midway Atoll.
A grove of trees on the slopes of an active volcano in Hawaii is home to a rare and beautiful bird.