A black-capped chickadee by any other name is a Poecile atricapillus. That’s the bird’s scientific name, the reference used worldwide to avoid the confusion a list of local names could offer. For ...

Last month, I wrote about the common names of birds, and the planned changes to some of those names. In the past, I’ve written about the folk names of birds. But there are also the scientific names of ...

Stacker compiled a list of the most common birds seen near feeders in Tennessee using data from the Cornell Lab of ...

(Stacker) - Wisconsin’s official state bird is the American Robin. It became a state symbol 20 years after Wisconsin school ...