coastal biologist with Audubon North Carolina, said she’s not sure why these parakeets ended up here. As far as she knows, no one ever really looked into it. There are birds that are native to ...

They’re common to see, even close to humans ... Dark-eyed Junco: This bird is usually in the NC mountains, but this time of year, it comes to our area and stays here all winter.

Light pollution is a known hazard to migratory birds, leading to impacts with buildings ... Lauren Pharr, a graduate student in NC State’s Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology program ...

Baltimore Oriole. Courtesy of Mel Green. Fall migration has begun, bringing cool-weather birds into our region. Newly arriving birds starting in October have been “a colorful bunch,” the NC ...

Northern cardinals, flashy and beloved, hold the record for being the most common official state bird in seven states: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia.