Don’t take the birds in your backyard for granted. Beyond eating bugs or invasive plant seeds, backyard birds provide people with joy and wonder, said Geoff LeBaron, Christmas Bird Count ...

Identifying which birds are nesting in your backyard by their eggs is a fun activity. With luck, one bird egg you won't find belongs to this visiting pest.

Because birding requires little gear, and can be done almost anywhere, it’s a great activity for your next trip. Here’s what ...

The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual citizen-science project that gathers data about wild birds. Participants go outside for at least 15 minutes and identify as many birds as they can.

How to identify 20 winter backyard birds at your feeders: Aerial View (photos) Published: Dec. 19, 2016, 12:30 p.m. By . James F. McCarty, The Plain Dealer; Jim Roetzel/Special to The Plain Dealer.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The Great Backyard Bird Count, an annual 4-day exercise in citizen science, kicks off today. Audubon Pennsylvania's Steven Saffier says if you feed them, they will come. He ...

Barbara RyboltCOUNT ME IN — The Great Backyard Bird Count, the annual four-day event that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds all over North America, takes place this year from ...

Blue Jays are one of the most common birds seen on the Great Backyard Bird Count. Photo by Jeff Tome Do you know how to identify birdfeeder birds? You can help scientists by counting birds during the ...

Last year more than 600,000 people from 210 countries and subregions participated in the Great Backyard Bird Count, identifying nearly 8000 species. You can see real-time results from this year here.

The Great Backyard Bird Count, in which members of the public are asked to count the birds they see or hear for at least 15 minutes, runs Feb. 14-17. ... An app to help you identify birds ...