Bird-watching can be a lot of fun, especially if you're looking to spot rare or infrequent birds in your area. You don't have to be an expert to partake, either. While there are loads of books on the ...

Visitors at a Yorkshire nature reserve recently got a once-in-a-lifetime surprise: A rare bird species not spotted in the area for 34 years suddenly reappeared. The Northern Echo reported that it ...

A bird described as a "rare" visitor from North America was spotted at Rutland Water over the weekend. Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust said birdwatchers had been "flocking" to see the ...

Birds of a feather flock together, the adage goes. But a rare bird spotted in Texas suggests there's more ornithological intermingling than previously thought. When researchers at the University of ...

When a bird rarely seen on this continent showed up in Riverhead last month, the reaction was, as might be expected, a little cuckoo. Native to Eurasia, the bird is anything but common here: It ...