Owl pellets aren't poop, and they're not vomit either. Here's how to tell a pellet from a dropping, what's actually inside ...

Dapperly dressed in black, white, and glacial gray, the Northern Shrike might pass as any other songbird. But don’t be fooled ...

Little Rock Audubon Center encompasses 450 acres of diverse habitat, including globally rare nepheline syenite glades, upland and bottomland hardwood forest, and an oak savannah restoration, all ...

Cowboys sometimes called these owls 'howdy birds,' because they seemed to nod in greeting from the entrances to their burrows in prairie-dog towns. Colorful fiction once held that owls, prairie-dogs, ...

Flashing its trademark yellow rump patch as it flies away, calling check for confirmation, this is one of our best-known warblers. While most of its relatives migrate to the tropics in fall, the ...

This medium-sized owl is widespread but not particularly well known in North America. The Long-eared Owl seems to call less often or less conspicuously than many of our other owls, so it may be ...

This rather tame, active, crested little bird is common all year in eastern forests, where its whistled peter-peter-peter song may be heard even during mid-winter thaws. It is related to the ...

In North America, the Magnificent Frigatebird is seen most commonly in Florida. However, they also appear regularly along the Gulf Coast, and strays have turned up in many parts of the continent.

A close relative of the Rufous Hummingbird, Allen's Hummingbird has a more limited range, nesting mostly in California. This is one of the two common nesting hummingbirds in northern California ...

The Altamira Oriole is common in northeastern Mexico, but was not found in our area until 1939. It has since become common year-round in native woods of far southern Texas. It may go unseen at times ...

Used by millions of birders from novice to expert, the Sibley Guides are an essential source of information on avian life. Learn about all 85 families of North American birds through the authoritative ...

The mournful cooing of the Mourning Dove is one of our most familiar bird sounds. From southern Canada to central Mexico, this is one of our most common birds, often abundant in open country and along ...