Fans of blue jays apparently find their antics — which include a nod to greed and theft — fascinating, says columnist ...

Bird-watchers across the country are flocking to Long Island after a common cuckoo—so rare in the US that it's been seen in ...

A common cuckoo, a species native to Europe and Asia, made several recent appearances in Riverhead, N.Y. The birds have been spotted in a handful of places in the lower 48 states, experts said.

A Long Island golfer spotted an extremely rare avian for these parts perched over a golf course on the East End, leading to a ...

Birds that end up far from home, like the New York common cuckoo, are known as “vagrants.” They’re fairly common during ...

G enetic analysis of the hoiho, also known as the yellow-eyed penguin, has revealed that this species is in fact made up of ...

The cuckoo, which has been spotted only four times in the mainland US, is native to Europe and winters in Africa.

I received a “rare bird alert” phone call this past week from a Prescott birder. I’d mentioned to this friend several months ago that I had yet to see an ...

The rare visitor, believed to be a Common Cuckoo normally inhabits parts of Europe and Asia and almost never makes its way ...

In New Zealand, conservationists are looking at new ways to protect the country's native bird species, some of which were ...

Discover the unique wildlife of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, from the nēnē goose and colorful honeycreepers to sea ...

LANSING One of Michigan’s most rare, iconic and celebrated bird species is the Kirtland’s warbler. Nearly extinct in the ...