Among birds with white heads, the Ross’s gull lives in Antarctica and very rarely visits North America. In breeding season, these birds have white feathers that are dusted with light gray.

5" (13 cm). Bold stripes, including white central crown stripe, black streaks on back and sides. Adult male has black throat and cheeks; female and young paler or whitish there. Compare to ...

A billion birds have disappeared from North America since 1970, and a third of bird species across the continent are threatened with extinction, a new report says.

A small, graceful marsh tern, black and silver in breeding plumage. In its choice of surroundings, it leads a double life: in North America in summer it is a typical bird of freshwater marshes, but in ...

Birds of America is a four-volume collection of Audubon's efforts to find and illustrate every bird in North America. He spent twelve years, from 1827-1838, traveling across the continent to paint ...

Birds in North America will no longer be named after people, the American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday. Next year, the organization will begin to rename around 80 species found in ...

As "North America's bird nursery," Canada has an added responsibility to conserve habitat, Mr. Couturier said. A majority of the continent's birds are hatched here, before migrating south.