Why the Mourning Dove is called that, what American folk beliefs said about its call (rain, love, luck and death), its names in Cherokee, Navajo and Nahuatl, the doves of the Bible, and what modern ...

A Collared Dove's song is a soft three-note coo, the middle note the longest, repeated over and over from roofs and wires. Listen to recordings, see the coo drawn as a spectrogram, and learn why ...

In Christian art the Goldfinch stands for Christ's Passion, and it appears in hundreds of devotional pictures, Raphael's Madonna of the Goldfinch among them. Here is what it meant, where those ...

Identify any bird by photo, sound, or description — then learn what it eats, how to attract it, and when it's near you. From the team behind Birdfact.com.

Perched on a fence post with its bill tilted skyward, the Western Meadowlark delivers one of the most celebrated songs on the North American continent — a rich, bubbling, flute-like melody that ...

A lemon-yellow face blazing against a jet-black throat makes the male Black-throated Green Warbler one of the most instantly recognisable warblers in North America. This small but persistent songbird ...

Bold white wing patches that flash like a crescent moon in flight, crimson eyes ringed with bare blue skin, and a call widely immortalised in a Stevie Nicks hit — the White-winged Dove is one of North ...

Dressed in a finely streaked buff-and-grey suit that makes it look almost too neat for the boggy thickets it calls home, Lincoln's Sparrow is one of North America's most secretive songbirds. Despite a ...

Lurking in the reeds of a cattail marsh, the Swamp Sparrow is more often heard than seen — its slow, sweet, monotone trill drifting across the water from well before dawn. What makes this stocky ...

The Fox Sparrow is the largest of North America's native sparrows, built like a small thrush and marked with bold reddish-brown chevrons across a white breast. Its song — a rich, cascading warble of ...

Bold white "spectacles" framing a blue-grey head make the Blue-headed Vireo one of the most cleanly marked songbirds in eastern North America — and one of the easiest vireos to identify at a glance.

With a bold harlequin face of chestnut, black, and white that no other North American sparrow can match, the Lark Sparrow is one of the continent's most instantly recognisable grassland birds. A ...