Eleonora's Falcon is a sleek, medium-sized raptor with long, pointed wings and a long tail. Its plumage varies, with two colour morphs: dark and light. The dark morph is uniformly dark brown, while ...

This master architect weaves intricate nests from grass and palm fibres, creating hanging masterpieces that dot the African savannah landscape. The Southern Masked Weaver is a small, vibrant bird with ...

At a distance the Glossy Ibis looks uniformly black, but catch one in good sunlight and the wings erupt in metallic bottle-green, bronze, purple, and violet — an iridescence that makes this ...

A bright rufous cap, a razor-clean white eyebrow, and a bold black eye-stripe make the breeding Chipping Sparrow one of the most crisply marked small birds in North America. Once the most common city ...

A male Blackbird sings slow, mellow, whistled phrases, each usually ending in a short, scratchy twitter, most regularly from March to June and richest at dawn. Its calls include a loud chink, a low ...

Cormorants eat almost nothing but fish, mostly under 8 inches long, caught by diving and chasing them underwater. What Double-crested and Great Cormorants eat, how big a fish they can swallow, how ...

Male and female Steller's Jays look the same, and males are only a little larger on average. The clues are calls and behavior: only the female gives the clicking rattle and only the male the whistled ...

Murmurations are the winter displays of Starlings swirling over their roost at dusk, mainly from November to February. Here is when and where to see one in the UK, why Starlings do it, and how ...

Few bird families capture the imagination quite like finches, these seed-cracking specialists whose remarkable diversity brings vibrancy to Britain's skies year-round. With their distinctive conical ...

What it means when you see a cardinal, according to the beliefs people hold, and where those beliefs come from: the name borrowed from the Catholic Church, the Cherokee legend of the redbird as the ...

Male and female Brown Thrashers look alike: no plumage mark separates them. Males average slightly larger, but not enough to see. The clues are behavior: only males are known to give the loud song, ...

Baby pigeons, called squabs, hatch after 16-19 days with closed eyes and a sparse coat of yellow down. Both parents feed them crop milk from the lining of the crop, then seeds. They stay hidden in the ...