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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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Anyone researching the types of eagles in Maine quickly learns there are really only two worth knowing well, though a third has occasionally wandered in from across an ocean.
Most people glance at a gull wheeling over a Virginia Beach parking lot and call it a “seagull,” but that single word hides a surprising amount of diversity.
Most people know the name “Cardinals” from Arizona’s NFL franchise, but the actual bird behind that name is a much rarer sight in the state than the mascot suggests.
A bird weighing less than an ounce can still out-sing almost everything else in an Oklahoma backyard, and that is exactly the reputation wrens have earned across the state.
A bird diving at 200 miles per hour sounds like fiction, but it happens regularly over Virginia’s cliffs, bridges, and even downtown skyscrapers.
If you are wondering whether you can own a parrot in Minnesota, the short answer is yes for the vast majority of pet parrot species.
Hanging a bird feeder in your Virginia backyard seems harmless enough, but the Commonwealth has a patchwork of rules that can turn a well-meaning hobby into a code violation.
Missouri sits at the crossroads of one of North America’s busiest songbird flyways, and warblers in Missouri put on one of the state’s best natural shows every spring and fall.
Anyone who fills a backyard feeder in Tennessee eventually meets a small, thick-billed visitor that cracks seeds with surprising speed.
Look up on a warm Pennsylvania afternoon and a dark bird tilting unsteadily across the sky on wings held in a shallow V is hard to miss.
Maine’s coastline and inland wetlands support several colonial wading birds, but most birdwatchers only ever encounter three of them regularly.
Only two eagle species claim permanent residency in the United States, and both fly through California’s skies year-round.
Alaska’s coastline, tundra, and boreal forest support one of the most varied bird populations in North America.
Utah’s mountains, deserts, and river valleys attract five regular hummingbird species every year, and each one arrives on its own schedule tied to elevation and food supply.
Few states can match Texas when it comes to hummingbird variety.
Idaho’s mix of high desert, farmland, and dense conifer forest supports one of the more varied finch populations in the American West.
A feeder that sits five feet off the ground can be perfectly legal in one Minnesota city and a citable violation one town over.
Every spring, the forests of New Hampshire fill with a chorus of buzzy trills, sharp chips, and rising whistles as warblers pour back into the state after wintering as far south as Central America.
A turkey vulture’s nose is sharp enough to pick up the scent of a carcass from as far as eight miles away, a sensory skill almost no other bird on the continent can match.
Backyard bird feeding might seem like a simple hobby, but Massachusetts residents face a surprising patchwork of rules that vary from one town to the next.
