Birds

The three high-school birders, dubbed The Pete Dunnelins, have one day to count as many bird species across the state of New Jersey as physically possible. Here's what it takes.

Advocates for opening a town-owned barn for the birds despite concerns over accumulating waste have gathered enough signatures to force a special town meeting.

A town-owned, antique barn will keep its windows shut this spring, over concerns about accumulated bird droppings. The birds — and many humans — are not pleased.

The website documents which birds are living in Connecticut and where, including wintering birds. Organizers say the website will help conservationists figure out which lands to protect so birds can continue to breed.

Driven south due to a poor conifer crop up north, evening grosbeaks, redpolls and bohemian waxwings will be looking for food in fallow fields, fruit trees and backyard feeders in parts of New England.

Migrating wild birds are spreading the virus to domesticated flocks, increasing the risk of eventually seeing a human outbreak. Scientists are troubled by the muted federal response.

As the climate warms, scientists are working against the clock to solve a mystery about why the Bicknell's thrush, which travels thousands of miles to raise its young on mountaintops across Vermont and the Northeast, is declining.

Hundreds of thousands of tree swallows put on a sunset show along The Connecticut River.

Hank Sprouse is part of a dwindling community of bird carvers, a group of artists who make lifelike birds out of blocks of wood.

Scientists tracking the birds in an experimental forest in New Hampshire have also tracked changes in the forest ecosystem over decades.