As I understand it, seeing a male painted bunting in full breeding plumage for the first time is like walking into the paint department at your local hardware store. If you stare long enough at this ...

One of North America’s most gorgeous birds, aglow in the outrageous color combination of red, blue and yellow-green, has showed up at a bird feeder in O’Hara Township — a rarity for Pennsylvania.

Members of the Raleigh birding community will toss their binoculars into the car at the drop of a sun hat for a two-hour drive to catch a glimpse of a rare specimen on their lifer list. So as word got ...

If I have said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: nature is always changing. For some reason we people always think that everything stays the same. But when it comes to nature, it is never the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rare-for-North Carolina bird first spotted last year at Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh apparently is making an encore appearance.

From colorful painted buntings to majestic pileated woodpeckers, discover the diverse bird species making appearances in backyards this season.

Most winters someone in the area is lucky enough to get a visit from a painted bunting, a bird so colorful that it looks like it belongs on an exotic tropical isle and not in Hampton Roads. This year ...

Flock to your nearest Arkansas revenue office and add a splash of color to your daily commute. The latest edition of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's conservation license plate features a ...

A single Painted Bunting photographed in Dorothea Dix Park in May 2023. The bird also made a rare appearance in the Raleigh, NC park last summer, drawing hundreds of birders from around the state to ...