The rising tides create many issues for seabirds, as water levels often eliminate their feeding areas and constrict their overall habitat. Maintaining a respectful distance from migrating shorebirds ...

Educational games, science presentations, birding tours and sketching were a part of the Utqiaġvik Shorebird Festival last week. The free two-day event celebrated shorebirds – such as the American ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The bird of the week for today is Pectoral Sandpiper. The Pectoral Sandpiper is a medium-sized, chunky shorebird. It is a long-distance migrant that breeds on the Arctic Tundra, ...

It still feels like summer to people, but for some birds, autumn is well advanced. This is particularly true of the shorebirds, the branch of the avian world whose fall migration first reaches Marin.

The coastal birding season has already started once March rolls around, with the first real signs of their spring migration cropping up on mudflats, estuaries, wrack lines, and high-tide roosting ...