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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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Twelve species of herons, egrets, and bitterns call Florida home, and no other state in the country offers a better front-row seat to watch them hunt, nest, and raise their young.
Wisconsin bird lists include six falcon species on record, but only three show up with any regularity across the state’s grasslands, farm country, and city skylines.
Kentucky lawmakers had plenty of options in 1926, but they picked a bird that almost everyone in the state had already noticed on their own porch.
Florida draws birdwatchers chasing herons, eagles, and warblers, but its finch population tells a much quieter story.
Connecticut sits along one of the busiest raptor migration corridors in the Northeast, which means the state hosts far more hawks than most residents realize.
A bird that weighs about as much as a penny spends its winter in the tropics, then flies thousands of miles north just to spend a few warm months in Maine.
Warblers in California put on one of the most dramatic bird shows in North America each spring and fall.
Colorado’s mountains, canyons, shortgrass prairies, and river bottoms support one of the more varied owl communities in the American West.
New Jersey’s wetlands host a surprising variety of long-legged waders, and most of the types of herons in New Jersey spend at least part of the year fishing the state’s marshes, bays, and retention ponds.
Stand in an open Maine field for twenty minutes and there is a good chance a hawk will drift overhead, whether it is a red-tailed hawk circling on a thermal or a northern harrier skimming low over the marsh grass.
Bright green flashes streaking over Miami rooftops or the raucous squawking echoing through a St.
Wyoming might seem like an unlikely place for hummingbirds, given its long winters and high-elevation terrain, but the state hosts a surprising variety of these tiny fliers every summer.
Arizona is one of the only places in the country where birders can check off every vulture species native to North America in a single trip.
Colorado’s official state bird is the lark bunting, not the fire-red songbird many transplants from the Midwest or South expect to see on a snowy fence post.
Indiana sits nowhere near an ocean, yet gulls in Indiana gather by the thousands every winter, wheeling over Lake Michigan, crowding shopping-center parking lots, and diving into inland reservoirs hundreds of miles from saltwater.
Only two types of vultures in Delaware share the same airspace, yet they behave so differently that longtime birdwatchers still mix them up at a glance.
Startle a big, slow-moving bird along the edge of a marsh or creek, and there’s a good chance you’ve just met one of Pennsylvania’s herons.
Georgia’s backyard feeders attract a surprising mix of small, seed-cracking songbirds, and identifying the different types of finches in Georgia starts with knowing which species actually stick around.
Feeding wild birds laws in Kentucky trip up more backyard birders than you’d expect, mostly because the state’s wildlife feeding rules were written with deer and bears in mind, not the folks filling a tube feeder with black oil sunflower seed.
A flash of red at the feeder could be one of two very different birds, and getting the identification wrong is one of the most common mistakes new backyard birders make in Illinois.
