A charming songbird with an elegant, pencil-thin tail found across northern Australia's grasslands and woodland edges. The Long-tailed Finch is a small, elegant bird with a distinctive long, pointed ...

This charming, fluffy ball of feathers with its distinctive long tail is a common sight in gardens and woodlands across Eurasia. The Long-tailed Tit is a tiny, round-bodied bird with a distinctive ...

is a bird with a tail typically measuring three feet, sometimes even a few inches longer. This means its tail feathers are three times as long as its 12-inch body. The ribbon-tailed astrapia lives in ...

We learned at school that there are five different classes of animals. These are mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians. However, this knowledge, long enshrined in textbooks, does not seem to ...

People traipse cross-country to see clouds of kites, or to catch a glimpse of a golden eagle in its highland home, and webcams fixed on the nests of ospreys, owls and peregrine falcons draw huge ...

How to spot birds of prey such as sparrowhawks, kestrels, buzzards, red kites and peregrine falcons in the Cotswolds ...

Birds are always up to something, and these entries captured an array of avians doing everything from impaling prey to ...

a long white eyestripe, a contrast of colors on its wings and carries a brown tail with some black feathering. A national movement in the late 1920s started the naming of state birds.

Bird watchers are flocking to southwest Kansas to see a rare bird of a species generally found only in Siberia, Greenland, ...

The Sri Lankan junglefowl (gallus lafayettii) is a beautiful bird that lives only in Sri Lanka. It’s special because it is ...