A field guide, a pair of binoculars and Merlin — the ultimate free smartphone app for bird identification — is all you need to start birding.

Downloads of online bird-identification apps are up by orders of magnitude. Two of the most popular apps, the National Audubon Society’s Mobile Bird Guide and Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s ...

Learn Some Birds Depending on where you live and what kind of habitat you’ve got, it’s possible to see upward of 200 different bird species in your backyard.

Who's at your feeder? The Great Backyard Bird Count, which asks participants worldwide to tally the birds in their backyards, begins Friday morning and lasts through Monday evening.

September can be bittersweet, as we say goodbye to the migratory birds that spent the summer nesting and raising their young in Southern California backyards. Many species, including hooded and ...