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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 Alabama homeowners assume that hanging a feeder in the backyard is a purely personal choice with no legal strings attached.
Millions of backyard bird feeders hang across Wisconsin, yet the feeding wild birds laws in Wisconsin are stricter than most homeowners assume.
Louisiana hosts more sparrow species than most birdwatchers realize, and telling one streaky brown bird from another can feel like an impossible task at first glance.
Spring in Minnesota brings a rush of returning color, and among the most anticipated arrivals are the state’s two types of orioles in Minnesota: the fiery Baltimore Oriole and the deeper, rust-toned Orchard Oriole.
You can hang a suet feeder in your Salem backyard without a permit, but toss bread to ducks at a city pond in Cannon Beach and you could be looking at a $500 fine.
Hanging a bird feeder in your Utah backyard feels like a harmless hobby, but the legal picture is more layered than most homeowners assume.
A backyard bird feeder sounds like the least controversial hobby in Michigan, but the state’s feeding wild birds laws in Michigan carry real legal weight once deer, bears, or a homeowners association get involved.
A patch of yellow flickering through willow branches along a Sacramento Valley creek might be gone before you raise your binoculars, but that split-second glimpse is often enough to identify one of the warblers in Northern California that call the region home for at least part of the year.
Most people picture flamingos or ospreys when they think of Florida birdwatching, but the state’s prairies, pastures, and backyard feeders host a quieter cast of characters.
Stand at the edge of almost any Texas wetland at dawn and you’ll likely spot a heron frozen mid-hunt, waiting for a fish to swim within striking distance.
A flash of red against bare winter branches or a thick wall of kudzu is one of the most reliable sights in metro Atlanta, and it belongs to the northern cardinal.
You hang a feeder outside your kitchen window expecting chickadees and finches, and instead you end up with a black bear on your porch and a certified letter from the county.
North Carolina hosts one of the most varied woodpecker populations in the eastern United States, ranging from a sparrow-sized backyard regular to a crow-sized forest giant that once inspired a cartoon character.
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.
