Birds come in all shapes, colors, and sizes, but some are particularly breathtaking. Here’s a look at five beautiful birds ...

Perhaps one of the most common birds heard and spotted across North America, Mourning Doves are often sighted near humans.

Spotted hyenas are known for hunting (or scavenging) larger mammals such as antelopes and occasionally feed on smaller mammals and reptiles. Being flexible in the choice of prey is a strategy of ...

The bird, which is widely believed to be a blue rock thrush, is a native of Europe and Asia that has rarely – if ever – been spotted in North America.

The homeowner who first spotted the new yellow cardinal requested that her identity not be disclosed in this story to protect the bird, and her property, from unwanted attention.

The bird has a blue-gray head and yellow-orange underside. It is native to South and Central America, but has been spotted around U.S. states, mostly along the border in Mexico.

The bird has a blue-gray head and yellow-orange underside. It is native to South and Central America, but has been spotted around U.S. states, mostly along the border in Mexico.

According to data collected by the USA TODAY Network, the following 10 species have emerged as the most-sighted birds across NY during March and April.

That gray heron spotted off Nantucket about three weeks ago still has bird watchers buzzing. That’s because there had never been another confirmed sighting of the bird in the lower 48 states ...

LOS FRESNOS, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A bird rare to the Rio Grande Valley was recently spotted at the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. Known as the Blue bunting it has drawn in visitors ...

The yellow-crested helmetshrike (Prionops alberti), also known as King Albert’s helmetshrike, is a small bird that lives in the humid forests of the Albertine Rift mountains in central Africa.

Being flexible in the choice of prey is a strategy of generalists -- and this even extends to small passerine birds, as scientists observed in Namibia: Spotted hyenas pursued red-billed queleas ...