Birding has gone mainstream. Here's what beginners should know.

I’ve become The Bird Guy to my friends and family. When they see a bird they don’t recognize, I’m asked to identify it with nothing more than a blurry photo. When the algorithms feed them bird-related ...

Welcome to the third newsletter of the Country Living Garden Club spring series. In this issue, we’re talking all things birds and backyard bird-watching. Hello, Fellow Gardeners! I’m so glad you’re ...

Ask birders why they go birding, and the answers you get will vary as widely as birds themselves. Some watch birds because they enjoy observing nature. Some, to complete life lists. Others, to get a ...

If you’d like to participate in a global birdwatching event from the perch of your own choosing, try the upcoming Great Backyard Bird Count. The exercise in easy, engaging citizen science is set for ...

You know that meme about birdwatching—how the older you get, the more interesting birds become? (“You spend your whole life being 100% indifferent to birds, and then one day you’re like, ‘Damn, is ...

Chad Witko, an outreach biologist in Vernon, Vt., has been a birder since he was 3. His father was a waterfowl hunter and would bring birds home for him to examine. His mother helped him put homemade ...

IT WAS THE surf scoter that first caught Molly Adams’ attention. Back in 2012, she was looking through an interactive exhibit at the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton, N.Y., where she ...