Purple martins are iridescent beautiful birds known for their speed, agility, and insect-eating habits. Not truly purple, ...

I crept around the back corner of my grandfather’s house, BB gun in hand. The bing cherry tree outside the front porch was ...

Naturally is a column written by a rotating cast of experts at the NJ Audubon. Within the past two months, I’ve had two ...

Purple martins taken about a 33% population dive in the last 50 years because of habitat loss and competition with invasive, ...

Unicoi County Summer Count took place Saturday, June 14, with 15 observers in six parties. Sharp-eyed counters tallied 107 ...

Coimbatore is a paradise for bird enthusiasts, offering stunning locations teeming with avian diversity. From serene wetlands ...

Unlike the purple emperor, the purple starling’s male and female are alike. However, their young have duller purple and brown eyes. Other than their striking 22-23 cm length, the purple starling is ...

My “uplift” began with a visit to one of the purple martin colonies perched atop a 15-foot post fitted with a crank device that permitted Michalski to lower the nesting chambers from 15 feet ...

Color plays an integral role in the animal kingdom. Naturally, purple animals are hard to come by because mammals can’t create that pigment. Even the birds and insects that display shades of purple do ...

One other example of “birds not of a feather nesting together” does involve an invasive species: English sparrows, also known as house sparrows.

Superb starlings help care for the offspring of birds they are not related to. “To me, that sounds like friendship,” one scientist said. By Asher Elbein True friends, most people would agree ...