Listening is the best way to find birds. If you only look with your eyes, you will miss a lot. For species that are shy and secretive, listening is often far more effective than looking for detecting ...

Although bird identification can be perplexing — baffling at times — for even the most accomplished birders, the principles of identification are relatively simple. We recognize birds by their visual ...

A selection of bird essays by renowned ornithologist and artist George Miksch Sutton (1898-1982), founder of the Avian Research Center in Norman, Okla., was posthumously published in 1986 as “Birds ...

Birding by ear makes bird watching a more interesting and rewarding experience. Most of the time this means tuning into birds’ vocalizations. If we hear a bird singing “Drink your tea!” you can expect ...