As fall migration for most birds comes to an end, we enter a period that birders call “rarity season.” This is when we often ...

A rare bird has been spotted in England for the first time in 34 years. The white-throated needletail was seen at Yorkshire Water's Tophill Low Nature Reserve in Driffield by visitors Mandy Gregory ...

Small-billed elaenia (Elaenia parvirostris) are small, greyish birds that live in South America. Unlike most animals we report on here, the tiny flier is listed as “Least Concern” on the IUCN Red List ...

Birds of a feather flock together, the adage goes. But a rare bird spotted in Texas suggests there's more ornithological intermingling than previously thought. When researchers at the University of ...

Whatever you call it, bird watching enthusiasts are flocking to Marshfield, Massachusetts, to catch a glimpse of a pink bird ...

Will Bowell, 39, was one such birdwatcher who travelled to the nature reserve twice, both on Friday and Saturday, to photograph the bird, which he described as "a real treat".

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 ...

A rare bird that has only been spotted in the UK just a few times has been seen at a nature reserve. Birdwatchers at Dunwich Heath on the Suffolk coast first reported seeing the Turkestan shrike, also ...

Even birds can get turned around from time to time. A rare subtropical wood stork was spotted in a very unexpected place recently – Wisconsin, after the bird apparently got lost in flight. The wood ...

A crested auklet was spotted on Farallon Islands, marking “the first-ever record of this species” on the islands, a conservation group said. Photo from Melisa Amato/USFWS “Among the usual crowd” of ...

The sudden burst of rare sightings has drawn attention and speculation. Are more rare birds actually arriving in Texas, or are people just getting better at spotting them? "The answer is a little ...