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Discover the diverse world of birds — warm-blooded vertebrates with feathers, beaks, and wings found on every continent, from tiny hummingbirds to flightless ostriches and everything in between.
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Most Chicagoans write off small brown birds as “just sparrows” and move on, but a closer look reveals four distinct types of sparrows in Chicago that anyone can learn to tell apart in a single season.
Feeding wild birds laws in Delaware surprise a lot of new backyard birders, mainly because there isn’t one tidy statute that says “yes, you may hang a feeder.
Warblers in South Dakota turn quiet river bottoms and shelterbelts into a moving kaleidoscope of color for a few weeks each spring, then repeat the show in reverse each autumn.
Oklahoma has no coastline, but that has never stopped gulls in Oklahoma from showing up by the thousands every year.
Bird feeding ranks as one of the most popular outdoor hobbies in the country, and it has held that status since Congress designated National Bird-Feeding Month in 1994.
Hang a tube feeder full of black sunflower seed in your Maine backyard, and you’re doing something almost every homeowner in the state does without a second thought.
If you have ever wondered whether that finch feeder hanging from your porch could get you in legal trouble, you are not alone.
Wyoming holds more strutting grouse than any other state in the country, yet most visitors never realize how many types of grouse in Wyoming actually exist beyond the famous sage-grouse.
Pennsylvania Game Commission wardens say bird feeders and garbage account for the vast majority of the bear complaints they field each spring, with one Fayette County officer putting the figure at 90 to 95 percent of the calls his department receives.
Most backyard birdwatchers in North Dakota assume they’re looking at “the” oriole whenever a flash of orange lands on a feeder pole.
Alabama is home to far more bird diversity than most backyard watchers realize.
More than 59 million Americans put out seed for wild birds each year, and plenty of New Mexico households count themselves among them.
Nearly 45 percent of South Dakotans watch wildlife around their homes, and a good chunk of that hobby happens through a backyard bird feeder.
Hang a bird feeder less than six feet off the ground in certain New Jersey towns, and you could be handed a fine before you ever fill it with seed.
Every spring, backyard birders across the Commonwealth scan the treetops for a flash of orange, but only two types of orioles in Pennsylvania actually show up with any regularity.
Hanging a bird feeder in your backyard seems harmless, but Washington’s feeding wild birds laws intersect with rules written for bears, deer, elk, and even Canada geese.
Florida is home to three types of orioles, and their backstories could not be more different.
If you hang a bird feeder in Colorado this year, you’re operating under different rules than you were a year ago.
You might assume that hanging a bird feeder in your backyard is one of the few outdoor hobbies with zero legal risk.
A single sunflower-seed feeder in your backyard is legal almost everywhere in Arkansas, but the moment that feeder sits inside a chronic wasting disease zone, a bear-heavy county, or a strict HOA neighborhood, the rules shift fast.
