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Articles About Birds

Spring Migration Is Here—Get Our Predictions

Our BirdCast project combines weather data, radar, and observations to make predictions about when and where you're likely to find migrants this spring. Check the site each week for tips on what to look for.

Similar SpeciesID Tips for Tricky Finches

Luke Seitz

Ever been stumped by a streaky brown finch at your feeder? The three red finches—House, Purple, and Cassin's—can cause a lot of confusion, but our in-depth guide will help you sort them out

Around the LabSuperflight

by Hugh Powell

Find out what's behind this winter's major flight of finches and nuthatches

ScienceScopeA Crow-shaped Hole in Hawaii

by Hugh Powell

FocusAmong the Alders

Text and photo by Marie Read

Last of Their Kind

Text and photos by Gerrit Vyn

On the Russian tundra, critically endangered Spoon-billed Sandpipers gather to nest and raise their young in numbers so vulnerably low, each new breeding season could be the species' last.

A Darwinian Dance

by Grainger Hunt

Falcons and starlings engage in an age-old aerial ballet, rising and diving in spectacular synchrony across the open sky

On the Plains of Hungary

by Gustave Axelson

The vast grassy puszta holds some of Europe's best bird habitat, unspoiled by communism but now threatened by economic crisis

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