A surprise Northern Wheatear: Ever heard of a wheatear? If you haven’t, here’s a hint - it’s a bird. Does that help? Earlier in the month I wrote a column about spotting an American White Pelican ...

A tiny songbird just crushed the nonstop flight record – tracking tags show it flew more than 4,200 miles over the open ocean without once touching down Somewhere over the North Pacific, a bird the ...

Like several other Old World mystery birds that we've recently seen, this taxon was recently removed from the thrush family and placed into the Old World flycatcher & chat family Male Schalow's ...

This bird had personality, too. It seemed to revel in its starring role, posing erect on a wire fence, basking in the evening sun, hawking a gnat from the air, and lording it over the half-dozen or so ...

This demystified Mystery Bird includes a charming essay written by the photographer about how this bird got its strange name Northern Wheatear, Oenanthe oenanthe, also known simply as the Wheatear, ...

A rare Arctic visitor came to Lane River Bridge in South Sutton on May 3.A female northern wheatear was seen and photographed there and leads to Rare Bird Alert for New Hampshire for this week.These ...

Your chances of setting out and finding a northern wheatear in Tennessee are practically nil. In fact, no one had even documented one in Tennessee until Tony King of Lenoir City discovered one on Nov.

Even a single gene, reshuffled or regulated in new ways, can fuel repeated bursts of evolutionary innovation, according to a recent study of wheatear birds. A study was recently published in the ...

When birders go out of their way to see a bird I don’t think “cuteness” is the motivating factor. Most often when birders gather in one spot it’s to see a rare bird and that is the case with the ...

Panaji: In a rare sighting that thrilled local birders, a juvenile pied wheatear (oenanthe pleschanka) was spotted earlier this month at the Verna industrial estate. The small migratory songbird, less ...

Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Michaela Strachan presents the northern wheatear. With their black masks, white bellies, ...