All the season’s colors made the gray mockingbird seem so majestic,” says Birds & Blooms reader Sujata Roy. In addition to gray birds, you should learn to identify these small red birds. Canada Jay ...

Hidden near flowing water, the Grey Wagtail builds its nest among rocks and moss. Watch this elegant little bird feed and protect its chicks in the wild.

Happy Birthday to Big Bird, who is 43-years-old today. No wait, actually, he’s six, and he’ll always be six. (Except for the time he was 4, and when he was originally very old.) Come on… ...

Three big birds here now, two to stay the winter, surely guarantee big birding pleasure. After all, birds standing four feet tall (or even a foot tall) and weighing ten pounds ...

The marbled murrelet is an enigma. It wasn’t until the 1970s that biologists discovered where the chunky brown-and-white bird made its home, and even then it was by accident: A tree-climber ...

Puppeteer who played Big Bird on ‘Sesame Street’ retiring. Caroll Spinney tells the New York Times that Thursday will be his last day on the program, which he joined from the start in 1969.

The gray-headed kite (Leptodon cayanensis) is known as the gavilán cabecigris in Spanish. It’s one of the 205 members of the Accipitridae (pronunciation here) family which is a diverse group of birds ...

Big Bird, an emu, was taken back to its home around 9:50 a.m. Monday. Emus are the second-tallest birds in the world and native to Australia.