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 ...

Its long, curved beak and the white ring of feathers around its neck make these condors stand out in any collection of big birds that fly. One of the many amazing facts about the largest bird of ...

Turns out the puppeteer who has played Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch for 47 years took a tumble a week ago and was hospitalized with a concussion. Whew. I can't imagine a world without Big Bird.

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 ...

Caroll Spinney, the actor and puppeteer who plays Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on “Sesame Street” for decades, is seen at offices in the Tribeca Film Center in Manhattan, NY.

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.

Big birds — over about 2 pounds if they are sedentary and 2 ounces if they migrate — laid smaller “clutches” of eggs at a time and lost more chicks from those nests.