A black-capped chickadee by any other name is a Poecile atricapillus. That’s the bird’s scientific name, the reference used worldwide to avoid the confusion a list of local names could offer. For ...

While much of the recent attention locally has been on the Eagles, a group of volunteers from western Schuylkill County has been more focused on birds of all types. Those folks took part in the recent ...

SAN DIEGO — A name change is coming to dozens of species of well-known birds this year — all in a push by the American Ornithological Society to remove human names and swap them with more useful, ...