I was hearing a red-winged blackbird but seeing a common grackle. Which was fine. If I wasn’t excessively comfortable with ...

Here are 10 fascinating facts about ravens. Ravens are extremely smart. When it comes to animal intelligence, these birds ...

The blackbird is a member of the thrush family. The male has a bright yellow beak and his plumage is all black. The female, though, is brown with speckles on her chest and actually looks like a ...

A blackbird comes full pelt across Flinders to perch on the laneside hedge, grub in beak for its chicks ... As I stand there, a woman in a black BMW stops to ask sarcastically how my ‘rodents ...

The RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch has shown that while house sparrows are still our most common bird, followed by the blue tit, ...

For many theater lovers in Sacramento, nothing says summer quite like enjoying a Merlino’s Orange Freeze while watching a show at Broadway at Music Circus. For nearly 75 years, audiences have ...

This month Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a new podcast that set off political shockwaves over his exchanges with high-profile conservative guests. It left some allies, and even critics, doing a ...

I always get this question — or a variation of it — from at least a few folks about this time of year: “A strikingly beautiful bird is coming to my feeder. It has a big red spot on its white breast, ...

The flamingos are densely packed together, creating a sea of pink birds, all with their distinctive curved necks and black beaks. The challenge posed to viewers is simple: a woman is hidden within ...

Under these drastically changing conditions, the struggle to survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard seeds. Smaller finches with less-powerful beaks perished.