"Witness the astonishing encounter … Prepare to be amazed by its size!" Homeowner captures rare footage after noticing ...

You might spot some of these woodpeckers stashing acorns in your garden, while others can be identified by their beautiful ...

A hairy woodpecker brings flashes of black and white to your backyard. Attract these birds with suet and peanut feeders.

A downy woodpecker is a small black and white bird that visits suet feeders. Listen to their call and see photos of males and ...

“This is a very unusual crime,” Detective Inspector Fraser Wylie of the Hertfordshire Constabulary, in southern England, said at the time. It happened one night in November 2009, when Edwin Rist, a 20 ...

Somewhere over the rainbow 48 million years ago, a happy little blue bird flew—until it soared over a lake belching toxic gases and died. The lake’s sediments then entombed the bird’s body, ...

A rock art panel in southeastern Utah dating to the first millennium a.d. was made by the Basketmaker people. The panel depicts human-duck hybrid figures (center), as well as flute players, a duck, ...

The ibis, with its brilliant white feathers and narrow, curved beak, was the sacred bird of Thoth, the ancient Egyptian god of wisdom and writing. Beginning about 600 B.C., ibises were frequently ...