Regardless, a bird's piercing yellow eyes can reveal a lot about its age, species, gender, and so much more. Luckily, though, it’s uncommon for birds with yellow eyes to be found only in one ...

The song of the Yellow-throated Warbler would please you, kind reader. Of this I have not a doubt, as it is soft and loud, and is continued for two or three minutes at a time, not unlike that of the ...

The Eastern Yellow Robin is a small, plump bird with a distinctive bright yellow underside and rump. Its upper parts are olive-grey, with a white throat and a dark grey tail. The bird has large, dark ...

A map of the Yellow Warbler’s banding and recapture locations, courtesy UMBEL. Here’s what UMBEL had to say about the recapture: “It’s not often that banded birds get “recaptured,” or caught again, at ...

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This Asian species is common over much of western and northern Alaska in summer, nesting around scrub willow thickets on the tundra. If a birder intrudes on their nesting territory, a pair of Yellow ...

In this week’s roundup, catch up on the spread of bird flu in the U.S., a tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas and lessons from fossilized vomit. The U.S. government lost control of the bird flu ...

A coastal powerhouse with distinctive yellow legs, this gull rules shorelines and harbours across Europe and beyond. The Yellow-legged Gull is a large, robust seabird with a distinctive white head and ...

Here’s how it works. We’ve gone to great lengths to test the best bird-feeder cameras. To help you find the best solution for watching and tracking the winged creatures that visit your garden ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Bird flu has impacted millions of wild birds and ...