It’s a classic birding bummer — sometimes a rare bird comes to light too late for birders to see it, to the chagrin of those ...

John Waldrop, an orthopedic surgeon, amassed a vast collection of ornithological specimens as part of what he called an ...

When Rocco first saw the bird outside, she took its picture and sent it to her friend, a former wildlife officer at the New York State Department ... she reported it as a rare bird sighting ...

BROOKLYN, New York — A federal judge has handed down ... doctor to pay $900,000 for illegally trafficking thousands of rare birds and eggs into the United States, federal officials announced ...

This is part of a series by photojournalist John Clifford of locations along the New York State Birding Trail, a network of ...

He’d been born and raised in working-class Buffalo, New York, moving to Ithaca in 1904 ... one where scientists stopped killing rare birds and started trying to keep them alive.

A 50th anniversary of anything is a big deal, and it was just that when the New York state chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation celebrated 50 years of existence.