Conservationists credit a species of parasitoid wasp for keeping Wilkins’ Bunting birds alive Peter Ryan/RSPB The Wilkins’ Bunting birds, a rare species living on the Nightingale Island in the South ...

The Painted Bunting of Brooklyn—the borough's celebrity bird—has yet to head south and remains a resident of Prospect Park, probably because it's still summer. But as we all know, with fame comes ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Christmas has come early for bird enthusiasts in Brooklyn. A beautiful male "Painted Bunting" was first spotted in Prospect Park on Sunday. Since then, it's been attracting ...

Bob Karp waited nearly three hours through a hot August Sunday for a glimpse of the painted bunting — sometimes called the most gorgeous bird in North America, with its feathers flashing red, green ...

The tube bird feeder hanging in front of Meigan Rocco’s kitchen window attracts the usual suspects to her wooded Flanders neighborhood: sparrows, finches, territorial cardinals and pesky blue jays.

Peering through a pair of binoculars, I frantically scan through dense clumps of brown grasses and ferns covering the floor of Prospect Park. Around 20 people crowd around me, all of whom are doing ...

There was a lot to chirp about in this Long Island town. A lazuli bunting, known for living on the West Coast, visited the bird feeder at Meigan Madden Rocco’s Flanders, Long Island home to the ...

The lark bunting was designated the state bird of Colorado in 1931. Why was this bird chosen to be the Colorado state bird? The answer I found was that the lark bunting was chosen because their ...

No matter how long you’ve been at it, birdwatching always presents new firsts. Wait, I used that sentence to start my column last month. Oh well, another birding first happened recently so I’m going ...