The handsome male blue-winged teal has a brownish body with an intricate spotted pattern. Note the gray head with a diagnostic bold white crescent on the face. Courtesy Tom Koerner/USFWS ...

U.S. birds display a wide array of striking hues. But just how colorful are our American birds? What you need to know from ...

For example, the white-winged dove has brownish-gray feathers with white bars on their wings. They also have: Pinkish legs and feet Red irises Blue rings around their eyes ...

Follow this guide to learn how to identify, locate, and hunt North Americas three key teal ducks: bluewing, greenwing, and cinnamon teal.

Great egrets and little blue herons. Blue-winged warblers and yellow-bellied sapsuckers. Snowy owls and tropical kingbirds. Across North America, three-fourths of bird species are in decline ...

Gone are the raucous blue jays trying to bully smaller songbirds away from a seed tray, and gone are the white-winged doves crowding onto bird feeders.

Adam Betuel of Birds Georgia said one can often see migrating blue-winged teals at the Gold Branch unit of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. A few may remain in Georgia for the winter.

Like most Minnesota duck hunters Saturday, Vern Starke will be counting on blue-winged teal to help fulfill the season's opening day. Besides offering what is perhaps the best-tasting meal of any ...

Hunters who are gearing up for Kansas dove season, which runs from Sept. 1 through Nov. 29, have a new mapping tool they can use this year.

It definitely wasn’t a blue-wing hot spot, but they had been there enough, and with no other real options, a buddy and I gave it a shot. We put out the spinners and almost immediately birds were on us ...

These birds also feature a jet black bill (an easy way to tell the difference between a hen blue-wing and hen cinnamon), tail, and primaries, as well as bright yellow legs/feet.

A federal laboratory has confirmed the presence of a bird flu strain in Louisiana. The H5N1 virus was found in a blue-winged teal killed by a hunter in southwestern Louisiana, the state Department ...