This stunning red and black goose migrates vast distances from Arctic Russia to wintering grounds in Eastern Europe, where flocks of up to 50,000 birds create spectacular displays against winter skies ...

Despite a global population of around 4 million birds, the Philadelphia Vireo remains one of North America's most overlooked songbirds — its song so similar to the abundant Red-eyed Vireo that even ...

Plunging from dizzying heights, this high-speed, fish-catching missile of the bird world transforms coastal waters into its own dramatic hunting ground. Gannets do not show obvious sexual dimorphism, ...

An agile songbird darting through India's urban gardens and scrublands, flicking its upright tail and showing off its rich black plumage with striking orange-red patches. The Indian Robin is a small, ...

Some do and some don't. Mourning Doves are partial migrants. On the northern edge of the breeding range almost all of them migrate; at middle latitudes, where winters are milder, some go and some stay ...

Robins nest early, low and in surprising places. The first eggs are laid around mid-April on average, as early as mid-March, and most pairs raise two broods a year. Here is when and where they nest, ...

Magpies eat almost anything: mostly beetles and other invertebrates, plus small mammals, carrion, seeds and fruit, and some eggs and nestlings. Their chicks are fed mainly insects and other ...

One of the world’s most widespread birds and has been valued and cherished by humans for at least five millennia. Domesticated and trained for sport and transporting messages, these birds originated ...

Baby Mourning Doves hatch blind and thinly covered in down after 14 days of incubation, are fed crop milk and then seeds by both parents, and leave the nest at about two weeks old. The male keeps ...

Most Blue Jays stay put in winter, but some migrate, by day and in loose flocks, mostly to the south and southwest. Here is what banding shows about which jays go and where, the huge flights along the ...

Seeds. About 99% of a Mourning Dove's diet is seeds, from crops or wild plants, and the little animal food it takes, mostly snails, is incidental. 1 All About Birds adds that they occasionally eat ...

Blue Jays eat nuts more than anything else, above all acorns, plus insects, corn and fruit, and a little of almost everything else. Here is what stomach studies found month by month, why jays are so ...