Every year, billions of migratory birds connect the world’s continents, oceans and ecosystems as they undertake epic journeys ...

Diminutive bird breeds in Alaska and Arctic Canada and sightings in Britain are rare enough to attract a crowd If you’d asked me which rare bird I might see in Somerset in early January, the least ...

Tagged Curlew Sandpiper bird sighted by Kharghar nature lovers. Picture of the ringed/tagged curlew sandpiper migratory bird at Kharghar by nature lover Nareshchandra Singh. ``Several wetlands and ...

Birds use flyways – superhighways in the sky – as important migration routes as they travel between breeding grounds, feeding areas and seasonal refuges. The Buff-breasted Sandpiper is a remarkable ...

Unique among shorebirds, the prairie-loving, pampas-wintering Buff-breasted Sandpiper links habitats from the Arctic to southern South America through its epic migration. Its future is uncertain, ...

On a 36-degree day — the coldest this fall — with winds gusting to 40 mph, Annette McClellan and Jan Lyons walked the long, wet jetty at Waukegan’s Municipal Beach toward the lighthouse. It was ...

Many readers have probably seen the movie "The Big Year," which was shown in movie theaters last summer. Most serious birders do a big year every single year, but not on the continental scale ...

The upland sandpiper is different from other birds in several respects. To begin with, it has two common names. For the last 30 years or so, it's been called upland sandpiper; earlier, it was often ...

Forget the holiday traffic jams, put away the summer clothes and turn on the central heating – it may still be August, but in the bird world, autumn is officially here. The first sign of the season ...

In an extremely rare sighting in the inland freshwater lakes, the Nanjarayan tank bird sanctuary in Tiruppur recorded the arrival of the Broad-billed sandpiper (Calidris falcinellus) on Wednesday. The ...

One of Britain’s rarest birds has been caught on camera at a sewage treatment site. The green sandpiper, believed to be one of a pair, was photographed by a green energy technician at Basingstoke ...