The most widespread, numerous, and geographically variable chickadee, this bird brightens winter ... and other species. The calls of a flock of black-cappeds in the fall often signal the presence ...

Documentation of Eastern Black Rails in Louisiana is rare, as the species is cryptic in nature and difficult to observe, however, a small population was recently documented in the southwest region of ...

Far from being destroyed, a naturally burned forest harbors extraordinarily rich biological diversity, and there's no better flagship species to help us embrace that than the black-backed woodpecker.

In 1857, a 28-year-old physician named Caleb Kennerly, who was also a naturalist with the Northwest Boundary Survey, shot a small black bird of a previously undocumented species on the shore of ...

in 2010 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finally designated the black-breasted puffleg as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. An international listing restricts buying and selling of the ...