For the past couple of weeks, whenever I opened my front door this little bird (, I think) would fly down from somewhere over ...

I suspect the great naturalist and pioneer ornithologist was optimistic in his estimation of junco familiarity. His “snow-bird” is now formally known as the dark-eyed junco, and back in Audubon’s time ...

If you spend much time outdoors in freezing temperatures, you probably wonder where birds go when the temperature drops and the winds pick up. Just a week ago, I was walking a trail through the ...

This post was updated Nov. 6 at 11:17 p.m. Most people would not think twice about seeing a bird on UCLA’s campus. However, for researchers in the Yeh Lab, many of the birds are anything but ordinary.