“Two young white ibises flew into a small pond in Freeport, New York. It was exciting because these rare birds are uncommon in our area,” says Birds & Blooms reader Kenneth Stevenson. “This brown ...

From the elusive tooth-billed pigeon in Samoa to unexpected vagrant sightings in Arizona, rare birds capture our curiosity and drive conservation action. Citizen scientists, armed with tools like ...

When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived in my region were nowhere to be found. Some, like the passenger pigeon, ...