Jan. 4—One of life's little pleasures is to watch birds coming to the feeder in the winter. Frequent visitors to my feeder include cardinals, chickadees, tufted titmice, house finches, downy ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Six ...

If you keep a list of birds seen in a calendar year, it’s a happy challenge to look at the blank slate that Jan. 1 brings.

As the weather grows colder and birds begin migrating south, here are eight birds that Wichita will start seeing again. To attract these birds to your yard this fall and winter, put birdseed, ...

The nuthatch is a true acrobat among birds — it is the only bird in Europe that can climb down tree trunks upside down. But its impressive abilities go far beyond that. PETBOOK has compiled some ...

It's that little bird that often climbs down the trunk of the tree head first. The only bird that is able to do so, it is the nuthatch's foot structure that makes this behavior possible. It has two ...

The ring-necked pheasant, an introduced species that has declined from its peak population in Pennsylvania in the 1970s to only a couple heavily managed pockets today, is one of the few birds that ...

The sunny yellow-hued American goldfinch, which has a black forehead marking, can be seen all over the states. For a real ...