They're one of the top species to spot and view for serious birders, and the next generation of these birds will spring to ...

The first purple martins of the year have been spotted in South Dakota, marking the start of spring migration. These birds travel up to 7,000 miles from Brazil to their breeding grounds in North ...

No one had ever successfully sequenced DNA from this species to figure out what it was, primarily because the bird is so rare ... Central or South America, where their closest relatives are ...

These are often shorebirds, including birds that breed on the tundra and winter in southern South America. Some species include the arctic tern, Hudsonian godwit, long-tailed jaeger and the bobolink.