Among birds with white heads, the Ross’s gull lives in Antarctica and very rarely visits North America. In breeding season, these birds have white feathers that are dusted with light gray.

Higher up, we saw half a dozen Western Tanagers, my nomination for the prettiest bird in the metropolis, with a bright yellow body, black wings and a neon orange head.

Many exotic bird species have made Southern California their home, breeding and living here year-round, with several populations of these birds skyrocketing in recent years. Doug Willick, who ...

In mating season, the male pin-tailed whydah’s tail can grow to three times its body length, giving it one of the most striking appearances of any wild bird in Southern California. But the ...

As that tool shows, Southern California is on the flight path for greater white-fronted geese, which are typically spotted on bodies of water as they migrate each fall from Alaska down south as ...

Kimball Garrett, ornithology collections manager at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County will deliver a free, illustrated lecture, Southern ...

Bird flu spreads to Southern California, infecting chickens, wild birds and other animals Chickens roaming and clucking inside one of the many henhouses at a poultry facility in Nuevo, Calif., in ...

He has authored or co-authored some 65 scientific publications and was co-author with Jon Dunn of “Birds of Southern California, Status and Distribution” (1981), and “Field Guide to Warblers ...

SAN DIEGO — News that a highly contagious bird flu has reached Southern California prompted SeaWorld San Diego to halt its bird rescue work and has San Diego Humane Society’s… ...

In mating season, the male pin-tailed whydah’s tail can grow to three times its body length, giving it one of the most striking appearances of any wild bird in Southern California. But the be… ...