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We asked participants in a recent cover survey to send questions that Contributing Editor Julie Craves could answer in her popular column Since You Asked in our upcoming December issue. The response was amazing! We received far more interesting questions...

How do you respond when you see two birds together? Are you a romantic or a scientist? Do you say, Aww! or Hmm? We found the photos below in our online photo galleries . Visit our photo galleries. We occasionally choose subjects for “Friday...

We asked participants in a recent cover survey to send questions that Contributing Editor Julie Craves could answer in her popular column Since You Asked in our upcoming December issue. The response was amazing! We received far more interesting questions...

We asked participants in a recent cover survey to send questions that Contributing Editor Julie Craves could answer in her popular column "Since You Asked" in our upcoming December issue. The response was amazing! We received far more interesting...

The Department of the Interior on August 4 granted Royal Dutch Shell conditional approval of its plan to begin drilling exploratory wells in the Arctic Ocean next summer. The proposed drill sites, four in all, are located in the Beaufort Sea about 20...

What’s your favorite part of the Great Blue Heron? The long legs? That heavy bill? Those big wings? We can’t get enough of them! We found the five below in our online photo galleries . Visit our photo galleries. We occasionally choose...

Visitors to our online photo galleries have uploaded lots and lots of great photos of woodpeckers. Here are five that caught our eye. Click on a photographer’s name to see more of his or her photos. Visit our photo galleries. We occasionally...

This bird, photographed at Sweetwater Wetlands in Tucson, Arizona, was formerly known as Common Moorhen. Now, following a determination by the American Ornithologists' Union that it is separate from the Common Moorhen of Eurasia, its name is Common...

This depiction of the newly described dinosaur Xiaotingia zhengi shows what it might have looked like. © 2011 Xing Lida and Liu Yi "Hardly any recent discovery shows more forcibly than this how little we as yet know of the former inhabitants...

Owls are often charming, at times haunting, and always beautiful, but they can be hard to find and even harder to photograph. That's why we like the photos below so much. We found each one in our online photo galleries . Click on the photographer’s...

At once beautiful and fierce, and capable of truly majestic flight, hawks never fail to thrill us. And lucky for us, they can be photogenic as well. We’ve chosen a handful of excellent shots from our online photo galleries below. We hope you like...

It can happen to you: You see a bird. The shape is familiar. The size looks right. Even the song matches what you expect. But the color? Take a look at this selection of unnaturally white birds from our online photo galleries . Click on the photographer’s...

A C-130 military cargo plane drops fire retardant over Frijoles Canyon to protect ancient ruins in Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico. Photographed on June 27 by Jayson Coil We noted last week that the Las Conchas Fire , the largest wildfire in...

Research published in Ecosphere , a new open-access journal of the Ecological Society of America, adds scientific support to the widely held assumption that the welfare of the Red Knot, a small, at-risk shorebird, is directly tied to horseshoe-crab populations...

Wow. 181 million. That's how many times the images provided by the webcam pointed at the Bald Eagle nest in Decorah, Iowa , had been viewed as of Friday morning. I know because I was one of the viewers. The nest, in a cottonwood tree on private property...

Too often the birds we see are far away, so it’s a treat to see them up close, as they are in the five in-your-face close-ups below. Visitors to BirdWatchingDaily.com posted them in our online photo galleries . Click on a photographer’s name...

Capturing birds in mist nets is one of the most common research methods in field ornithology, but until now, the risks mist nets pose to birds were largely unknown. New research published today finds good news for birds and scientists: Birds are rarely...

The Las Conchas Fire burns on June 27 near Los Alamos, New Mexico. Photo courtesy Los Alamos National Laboratory Since my post from June 16 about the impact of the Monument Fire in Arizona on birding destinations, more wildfires have made headlines...

Timing is everything in birding and photography, and that was certainly true for Randy Mehoves in late April 2007, when he photographed the bright red Summer Tanager that appears on our June 2011 cover (right). Randy was visiting Sabine Woods , a famous...

Our August issue is now available on BirdWatchingDaily.com. If you're a subscriber, you will find it in your mailbox shortly. The issue will appear on newsstands in early July. Watch a video preview of the August 2011 issue . Read the complete contents...

Today we’re stepping way outside our Wisconsin backyard to show you five birds from beautiful Brazil -- a tiny taste of the amazing variety of species in the country. Enjoy! Enjoy, too, our three previous Friday photos selections -- hummingbirds...

Lots of people have been talking about Indigo Buntings recently. The songbird spends the winter in southern Florida, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean and typically arrives here in Wisconsin in May. (I didn't see my first one until May 21...

We started with tanagers . Last week, it was orioles . Today, we have hummingbirds. A reader took each shot, and shared it in our online photo galleries . Please enjoy, and please share YOUR photos with us too! Black-chinned Hummingbird: Lois Manowitz...

[Update, June 29, 2011: For more on wildfires in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Georgia and near Canada's Wood Buffalo National Park, nesting site of the endangered Whooping Crane, see this report from Associate Editor Matt Mendenhall .] Fire...

Don’t you just love the Yellow-rumped Warbler? It’s one of the most common warblers in North America. It’s usually the last to leave in the fall and one of the first to arrive in the spring. It’s often the most abundant in wintertime...