Arctic snowy owls fly thousands of miles south to Boston Logan International Airport. And every season, Norman Smith drives less than an hour to try to snatch them up.

Discover 6 types of birds that are blue! Beyond blue jays, we dive into tree swallows, eastern bluebirds, and much more!

The spring migration brought an unexpected treat to Six Mile Lake this month: a great blue heron in near-full breeding plumage. While great blue herons aren’t unusual at the lake, most that I see are ...

Nature never runs out of ways to surprise us! It is endowed with birds that have beautiful covers of feathers on their bodies ...

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This bias can create a negative feedback loop, the paper warns, where the most-studied species keep getting studied and the ...

An extraordinary arrival of migrants occurred in southern Ireland in early spring 2025, including unprecedented numbers of ...

Boston’s airport has the highest known concentration of snowy owls in New England. Raptor researcher Norman Smith has removed more than 900 of the Arctic birds.

Blue jays (recognizable by their blue, black, and white feathers. Unlike most blue birds, which exhibit sexual dichromatism, ...

Focusing on brightly plumaged and familiar birds can leave important conservation questions unanswered — and even put less ...

Others, like purple martins, Carolina wrens, and white ... These birds nest in dense trees and shrubs from 3 to 10 feet above the ground. You'll know if they have because mockingbirds are fierce ...