Social Media Ideas for Exotic Birds

A Selection of East African Sunbirds

The biweekly reminder on my phone “10,000 Birds” generally equates to a routine (but much appreciated) conundrum of what can be shared that is interesting enough, bird-related, and...

Exotische vogels in de tuin en op het dak: bij Avifauna horen ‘ontsnappingen’ er gewoon bij

The Black-and-White Birds of North America

You can find black-and-white birds everywhere. If you live out west, heading to the grocery store often means seeing at least one Black-billed Magpie. And in the east, looking out...

California community mesmerized by rare bird sighting

A rare, exotic bird typically found in the Caribbean and parts of South America has been spotted in Irvine, California. Carter Evans reports.

Beholding a Jewel

Chris Gooddie describes them as “the ultimate forest prize” – and this couldn’t be a more apt description of members of one of the most reclusive families of birds in the Great Eas...

Rare Indonesian maleo birds face new threat from international exotic pet trade

Wildlife traffickers are increasingly targeting critically endangered maleo birds from coastal Indonesia for the international exotic pet trade, according to a recent study. In 202...

The Favorite Birds of Our Profiled Bird Guides

In our series on bird guides, so far, 131 profiles have been published. To start the interview, we asked each of them the same question: What is your favorite bird species? Not sur...

Bird Guides of the World: Jason Bugay Reyes

What is your favorite bird species? Indigo Flycatcher Bornean Banded Pitta What is your name, and where do you live? My name is Jason Bugay Reyes, and I live in a village in Tuaran...

At the Escarpment

Long, upward slopes called escarpments offer a good chance of seeing some of the many raptor species found in Belize. Shaped like a compact Red-tailed Hawk, White Hawks are white o...

Not Just Another Bulbul

I’ve been reading a bit about bird and flower motifs – specifically those involving roses and nightingales – a curious path to take given that I’ve never seen a nightingale, nor do...

Three Photos: Endemic Birds of Northern Peru

Long-whiskered Owlet Marvelous Spatuletail Scarlet-banded Barbet Photos by Pablo Romo of Ikamexpeditions.

A Pink Feather in Miami-Dade County's Cap

Few birds have captured the imagination or become as enduring a symbol of South Florida quite like the American Flamingo. Its designation as Miami-Dade County’s official bird celeb...

Rare and Vagrant Migratory Birds Find Refuge at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

Imagine you are a migratory songbird flying south for the winter. Your flight path, which may have started in the boreal forest of eastern Canada, takes you over mountains, valleys...

Rockjumpers: When the Place Is as Special as the Bird

By Adam Cruickshank Adam Cruickshank is a team member at Birding Ecotours and the host of The Birding Life Podcast. He is based in South Africa and spends much of his time explorin...

The Pink Birds of North America

Fact-checked by Kenn Kaufman, field editor, Audubon magazine. We don’t have a lot of pink birds in North America. In fact, even if we get generous with the definition of pink and c...

New Members of One of the World’s Rarest Bird Species

If you’ve seen the news surrounding Zoo Atlanta, you know it has been buzzing about a certain pair of black-and-white bears recently. Yes, these fuzzy new additions are cute and ex...

Winter brings rare birds to Hawaiʻi shores

As winter approaches, various species of migratory birds from regions including Alaska, Siberia, Australia, and New Zealand arrive in Hawaiʻi for seasonal stops or wintering.

Truffle-Hunting Birds

With their excellent sense of smell, pigs are renowned for sniffing out truffles, a fungus that grows underground and is prized for its taste. But it turns out that some bird speci...

So Many Birds, So Little Time (or Bands)

The morning began just before sunrise with competing Great Horned Owls calling back and forth across Oliver Reservoir in the far southwest of the Nebraska panhandle. It was the fir...

The Birds That Fertilised the World: Peru’s guano boom, and what it cost the seabirds that made it

By Alfredo Fernandez Alfredo Fernández is a biologist and nature photographer based in Lima, Peru. A National Geographic Explorer since 2017, when his project documented Peru’s thr...

Hummingbird Curiosity

Central Mexico is a great place to get to know lots of hummingbirds. I have seen 19 hummingbird species within an hour of my home in Morelia. Thirteen of those species can be seen...

A Songbird with a Unique Shade of Blue

If a flash of blue across the arid montane summer landscapes of New Mexico and Arizona catches your eye,  it may just be the spunky Mountain Bluebird. The first time I saw one of t...

‘Lost’ bird reappears in West Africa’s forests after more than a decade

When Paulo Ditzel first laid eyes on the bird, he knew he’d seen something special: a vibrant orange body with yellow and black wings and tail feathers, topped by a dark head set o...

A tiny rare bird has tourists flocking to Portland's Broughton Beach

As soon as the small blue bird with red breast feathers was spotted, the call went out to birders across the country.