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

On a 2009 hike in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona, a group of birders heard an otherworldly, ethereal bird ...

The kakapo, a nocturnal and flightless bird from New Zealand, is the world’s heaviest parrot, saved from the brink of extinction through dedicated conservation efforts.

We have to look at the bigger picture before we know if more ... is necessarily a good thing. Experts stunned as trail ...

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

A rare white-throated needletail has made an extraordinary appearance at a Yorkshire nature reserve, marking the first time the bird has been seen in England in 34 years. The unusual visitor, a ...

Birds are some of the most interesting animals in the world, whether they are stunning us with colorful plumage or fascinating us with unusual courtship rituals. However, although many species are ...

An extremely rare water bird has been spotted in a part of Scotland for the first time. The UK has recently seen an influx of the glossy ibis, despite it previously being an infrequent visitor. RSPB ...

A bird described as a "rare" visitor from North America was spotted at Rutland Water over the weekend. Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust said birdwatchers had been "flocking" to see the ...

Two sightings of a rare type of bird, a scissor-tailed flycatcher, on Vancouver Island this year has the birding community ...

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

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A very rare and apparently very confused subtropical wood stork somehow found its way to the wilds of Wisconsin. A hunter scouting for deer first sighted the bird Sunday in a ...