Bird-watching for Beginners: Start Identifying Birds

Ready to learn about bird-watching for beginners? Grab binoculars and a field guide, connect with other birders, then go see ...
CNN

Bird-watching beginner’s guide: How to start birding your backyard and beyond

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 ...
Berkshire Eagle

Sheffield author's 'Birds of New England' is a guide for beginners and experts alike

SHEFFIELD — For Zach Adams, birding isn’t about getting every identification right — it’s about having fun. “You’re going to be wrong. Everybody gets bird identification wrong. I get it wrong all the ...

Kamloops teacher goes species-by-species in ambitious regional field guide for birders

A Kamloops teacher’s obsession with birds has hatched a massive 400-page field guide documenting every species ever recorded ...

Why birds put snakeskin in their nests and what predators do when they see it

There is something faintly unsettling about finding snakeskin threaded through a bird’s nest. A curl of translucent scales ...
Science Daily

When migrating birds go astray, disturbances in magnetic field may be partly to blame

Disturbances to Earth's magnetic field can lead birds astray -- a phenomenon scientists call 'vagrancy' -- even in perfect weather, and especially during fall migration. While other factors such as ...
The Enterprise

D.W. Field Park partially reopens after positive bird flu results. What's open, what's not

BROCKTON — D.W. Field Park partially reopened to the public on Friday after being closed for three weeks over concerns about bird flu. "D.W. Field Park is now reopen to the public," the city of ...